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SKU:JU030BK00DO1WNAFAMZ
Model:9789774248405
Author:Tregenza

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  • Paperback - Number of Pages: 490 pages
  • Dimensions: 134 x 208 x 28mm - 762.05g
  • Publication date: 30 Nov 2004
  • Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
  • Publication City/Country: Cairo, Egypt
  • Language: English

The English scholar and explorer Leo Arthur Tregenza (1901-98) arrived in Egypt in 1927 as a school teacher, and remained there until the 1952 Revolution. From his native Cornwall he brought with him an abiding passion for Roman civilization, natural history, and walking, interests which he continued to pursue in Egypt by traveling on foot during school vacations through some of the country's wildest and most historic landscapes. In The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt and Egyptian Years Tregenza describes and Egypt now unknown to us, in which the waters of the Nile still flooded and Bedouin of the desert practiced a way of life unchanged for thousands of years. The two volumes deal mainly with his three long treks (1947, 1949, 1951) in the Eastern Desert. They also provide highly valuable depictions of the pre-High Dam rhythms of the Nile and its rural peoples. Walking with Tregenza, we probe the Greek and Roman mining and quarrying sites of the desert wilderness, including Mons Porphyrites and Mons Claudianus. An assiduous observer of the wildlif...

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