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Alexandria

City of Memory

Alexandria( )
Author: Haag, Michael
ISBN:978-0-300-10415-8
Publication Date:Oct 2004
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $39.00
Book Description:

This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria at a high point of its history. Drawing on diaries, letters, and interviews, Michael Haag recovers the lost life of the city, its cosmopolitan inhabitants, and its literary characters. Located on the coast of Africa yet rich in historical associations with Western civilization, Alexandria was home to an exotic variety of people whose cosmopolitan families had long been rooted in the commerce and the...
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Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: History / Middle East / Egypt
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
History / Africa / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7.5 x 9.25 x 2.803 Inches
Book Weight:2.6 Pounds



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