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.Lonely Planet Egypt
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by: Matthew D. Firestone, Zora O'Neill, Anthony Sattin

May 01, 2008
Thank goodness I read this book before going to Egypt. I feel it really kept me from being ripped off left and right while I was in Egypt. I can't imagine anyone going there without knowing all the good tips contained in this book. The book though should make a bigger point about how to go about negotiating prices and what to really watch out for. For example, there are seemingly nice people who will approach you in markets or near tourist sites asking to show you around. BE CAREFUL! These people are most likely out to swindle you. I ran into one guy who wanted to show me papyrus at Said's Delta Papyrus Center. Little did I know that this guy was getting a big commission for taking me there if I had agreed to pay exorbitant prices for ... Read More:
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.Eyewitness Travel Guides Egypt
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by: Dorling Kindersley

August 14, 2007
Thank goodness I read this book before going to Egypt. I feel it really kept me from being ripped off left and right while I was in Egypt. I can't imagine anyone going there without knowing all the good tips contained in this book. The book though should make a bigger point about how to go about negotiating prices and what to really watch out for. For example, there are seemingly nice people who will approach you in markets or near tourist sites asking to show you around. BE CAREFUL! These people are most likely out to swindle you. I ran into one guy who wanted to show me papyrus at Said's Delta Papyrus Center. Little did I know that this guy was getting a big commission for taking me there if I had agreed to pay exorbitant prices for ... Read More:
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.Frommer's Egypt
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by: Matthew Carrington

August 08, 2008
Thank goodness I read this book before going to Egypt. I feel it really kept me from being ripped off left and right while I was in Egypt. I can't imagine anyone going there without knowing all the good tips contained in this book. The book though should make a bigger point about how to go about negotiating prices and what to really watch out for. For example, there are seemingly nice people who will approach you in markets or near tourist sites asking to show you around. BE CAREFUL! These people are most likely out to swindle you. I ran into one guy who wanted to show me papyrus at Said's Delta Papyrus Center. Little did I know that this guy was getting a big commission for taking me there if I had agreed to pay exorbitant prices for ... Read More:
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.Art & History: Egypt, 5000 Years of Civilization
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by: Alberto CarloCarpiceci

March 15, 2006
This book is brilliant. It goes into depth regarding the history, and has lots of pictures.
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.Egypt Travel Map
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by: Robin Gauldie

April 15, 2008
This book is brilliant. It goes into depth regarding the history, and has lots of pictures.
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.Egypt
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by: A. & Jenkins, S. Humphreys

January 01, 2002
Thank goodness I read this book before going to Egypt. I feel it really kept me from being ripped off left and right while I was in Egypt. I can't imagine anyone going there without knowing all the good tips contained in this book. The book though should make a bigger point about how to go about negotiating prices and what to really watch out for. For example, there are seemingly nice people who will approach you in markets or near tourist sites asking to show you around. BE CAREFUL! These people are most likely out to swindle you. I ran into one guy who wanted to show me papyrus at Said's Delta Papyrus Center. Little did I know that this guy was getting a big commission for taking me there if I had agreed to pay exorbitant prices for ... Read More:
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.Helen In Egypt
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by: Hilda Doolittle

January 01, 1981
How to describe this book? Doolittle's dexterity with our language, her soft langurous voice, the layers upon layers of depth underlying each of the stanzas? It is impossible. Having read the Greek lyrics and tragedians, and that other beacon, Shakespeare, I am still at a loss to do justice to Doolittle's "Helen in Egypt." I can only tell you one thing: read it. But if you do, do it slowly, with care and attention to each of the lines, with long pauses to allow them to sink in, and let yourself be seduced by Helen, Helena, the phantom that, real or not, launched a thousand ships, and languishes between a triumvirate of men, gods, and heroes: Zeus and Amen, Achilles and Paris and Theseus, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra...
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.Time Traveler: Visit Medieval Times, the Viking Age, the Roman World and Ancient Egypt
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by: Judy Hindley, James Graham-Campbell, Patricia Vanags

1999-03
This book is recommended for ages 9-12, but my 6-year-old ate it up and my 4-year-old enjoyed it too. I bought it because my girls are going through a knights and castles thing, and this was recommended as a good place to learn about them. I thought we'd just read that section and put it on the shelf until the other subjects came up. Well my 6-year-old saw things differently. She loves this book. She loves the way it is laid out and what she is learning from it. She had no interest in Vikings or Romans or Egyptians before this, but now she wants more on all these topics. And it is a fun book for me to read too. It is reminding me of things I hadn't learned since I was a child, and the diagrams are so clear that maybe I am learning things ... Read More:
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.National Geographic Traveler: Egypt 2nd Edition
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by: Andrew Humphreys

October 16, 2007
This book is recommended for ages 9-12, but my 6-year-old ate it up and my 4-year-old enjoyed it too. I bought it because my girls are going through a knights and castles thing, and this was recommended as a good place to learn about them. I thought we'd just read that section and put it on the shelf until the other subjects came up. Well my 6-year-old saw things differently. She loves this book. She loves the way it is laid out and what she is learning from it. She had no interest in Vikings or Romans or Egyptians before this, but now she wants more on all these topics. And it is a fun book for me to read too. It is reminding me of things I hadn't learned since I was a child, and the diagrams are so clear that maybe I am learning things ... Read More:
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.Secrets of the Great Pyramid
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by: Peter Tompkins

December 31, 1978
Secrets of the Great Pyramids is the original book that first alighted my interest in ancient Egypt, Atlantis, and the mystery of who we really are. Richly illustrated with photographs, engravings, and diagrams, it still inflames my imagination about this only existing wonder of the ancient world.

The author Peter Tompkins expertly weaves enticing anecdotes about the history of the Great Pyramids. This is a book that's jam-packed with so much information, that even though I've read it numerous times, I still learn more every time I pick it up.

Tompkins describes how ancient people probed the Great Pyramid's mysteries, that Isaac Newton was fascinated with the Pyramid, how Napoleon conquered Egypt with a battle fought in sight ... Read More:
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