John Ward

Pyramids and Progress

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This highly illustrated 1900 work guides the visitor to the ancient Egyptian sites while noting changes to the modern state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781108081986
• ISBN-10: 1108081983
• Artikelnr.: 42862963

Autorenporträt

John Ward is communications director for the ACLU of Massachusetts. He has written and lectured extensively on politics, urban public policy and criminal justice reform. In a prior, weirder life, he was a hip-hop artist and producer. Seriously. He lives in Boston with his patient wife, three wildling sons and an old, smelly dog. Visit John Ward online: johnward.ink

Inhaltsangabe

Author's preface
Introduction
1. The doorways of Egypt
2. Cairo, the caravanserai of the world
3. The great pyramid-platform
4. The further pyramid-platform
5. The oasis of roses
6. The ancient city of Annu, or On
7. A reformer of ancient days
8. The tablet of Abydos
9. The last Egyptian princess
10. The city of the living
11. The city of the dead
12. A voyage on the Nile in a felucca
13. The doomed island of Philae
14. Assouan under Lord Kitchener
15. A trip on the Nile through Nubia
16. Water for the thirsty land
Index.