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Forster wrote his book in two thematically distinct parts, the first devoted to the city's history, the second to a more conventional, Baedeker-like series of walks through neighbourhoods and museums, as well as excursions ranging outside the city
Forster wrote his book in two thematically distinct parts, the first devoted to the city's history, the second to a more conventional, Baedeker-like series of walks through neighbourhoods and museums, as well as excursions ranging outside the city
Forster wrote his book in two thematically distinct parts, the first devoted to the city's history, the second to a more conventional, Baedeker-like series of walks through neighbourhoods and museums, as well as excursions ranging outside the city

essential reading for archaeologists and anyone interested in Egyptology


FORSTER, E.M.

Alexandria: a history and a guide.

Alexandria, Whitehead Morris Ltd, 1922.

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Alexandria: a history and a guide.

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One of two books (the other being Pharos and Pharillon), in which Forster describes Alexandria, the city in which he was stationed as a Red Cross volunteer during World War I. He had originally travelled to Alexandria with the aim of joining the relief effort but, finding that 'what had begun as an outpost turned into something suspiciously like a funk-hole', he spent his spare time researching and writing about the city in order, as he said, to make living there tolerable. Many copies of this book were destroyed during the War.

Forster wrote his book in two thematically distinct parts, the first devoted to the city's history, the second to a more conventional, Baedeker-like series of walks through neighbourhoods and museums, as well as excursions ranging outside the city (Samuel Cross, Yale University).

First edition. Small 8vo, (190 x 125 mm); x, 227pp, frontispiece, 20 maps including folding map inserted loose in rear pocket, front free endpaper slightly frayed at edge; publisher's original buff coloured printed boards, slightly worn and darkened on spine; otherwise a very good example.

Kirkpatrick A8a.

Stock code 117559

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Forster wrote his book in two thematically distinct parts, the first devoted to the city's history, the second to a more conventional, Baedeker-like series of walks through neighbourhoods and museums, as well as excursions ranging outside the city

Alexandria: a history and a guide.

$1,021.00
$1,021.00

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