An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries

by Strabo and Plutarch

Book Overview

Founded by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago, Alexandria has belonged both to the Mediterranean and to Egypt, a luxuriant out-planting of Europe on the coast of Africa, but also a city of the East--the fabled cosmopolitan town that fascinated travelers, writers, and poets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where French and Arabic, Italian and Greek were spoken in the caf s and on the streets. In the pages of An Alexandria Anthology,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774166728
• ISBN13: 9789774166723
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 6.5"