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Author: Jean-François Champollion
Publisher: Gibson Square Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first English publication of the Egyptian diaries of the man who, against the odds, broke the code of the Rosetta stone. Peter Clayton provides an authoritative introduction to the book.
Author: Nevine Abbas Halim
Publisher: Zeitouna
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789775864239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe glamour and glitter of the lives of Egypt's royal family Princess Nevine Halim is a direct descendant of the royal family that ruled Egypt from 1805 until the abdication of King Farouk in the wake of the Free Officers coup in 1952. The eldest of three children, she was born in Alexandria on 30 June 1930, the great-great-granddaughter of Muhammad Ali Pasha on her father's side and the great-granddaughter of Khedive Ismail on her mother's side. Drawing on her own diary, as well as those of her mother and grandmother, she takes us on a journey from the First to the Second World War, from Egypt to Europe and the United States, from a world of glamour, wealth, and privilege to the fugitive existence of the exile and social outcast after 1952. We also meet her father, Abbas Halim, the charming rebel prince who clashed with King Fuad for championing the rights of workers, as well as many other members of the Egyptian royal family and a glittering host of international royals, politicians, and film stars. Packed with royal gossip and political intrigue, with tales of young love and fashionable society, and of princes and princesses dancing perilously close to the edge of a way of life that would one day fall apart and then vanish, Diaries of an Egyptian Princess is an event-filled account of an endlessly fascinating epoch in modern Egyptian history.
Author: Jean-Francois Champollion
Publisher:
Published: 2008-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781903933299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeen as mystical codes, Egyptian hieroglyphs were the subject of a hard-fought race between the French and the English in the 1820s. This book tells the unique and passionate tale of Champollion's adventure troubled by heat, flooding, robbers and deceitful dealers to uncover their meaning.
Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2015-01-27
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0763678244
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Like Platt’s previous ‘diaries’ about castles, pirates, and ancient Egypt, this offers an accessible introduction to history." — Booklist Iliona never imagined that her sea voyage from Greece to Egypt would lead to Rome, but when she is captured by pirates and auctioned off as a slave, that’s where she lands. Readers are invited to view the wonders of Rome through Iliona’s eyes—the luxury, the excess, and the politics. Back matter includes notes for the reader, a glossary, and sources.
Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2015-01-27
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 076367849X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A fresh, lively voice. . . . Replete with details of daily life." — Kirkus Reviews The year is 1464 BC, and Nakht’s family is moving to the city of Memphis. Nakht, who is studying to be a scribe, keeps a journal of the many sights and sounds of the bustling city — temples and pyramids, cargo ships, a hippopotamus hunt, even a tomb robbery. Presented as a lively diary, here is an invitation for readers to witness firsthand what life was like for one boy in Egypt 3,500 years ago.
Author: Kristiana Gregory
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780590819756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, 12-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.
Author: British Museum
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2017-06-08
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781782438069
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautifully designed full-colour journal, featuring stunning images from the British Museum archives, is one that will be coveted by all ages. Focusing on the Ancient Egyptian collection, the journal has softly lined pages and, along with full-page images of artefacts from the collection, also contains decorative details throughout.
Author: Florence Nightingale
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780791431153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrior to her heroic efforts in nursing during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale experienced tremendous psychological and spiritual anguish as she struggled to answer what she believed to be a divine call to service. Traveling to Egypt and Greece in 1849-50, she recorded her thoughts in a diary which has never been published in its entirety. Presented with never before published manuscript material and two unusual pieces of short fiction, this work demonstrates that Nightingale gleaned ancient Egyptian, Platonic, and Hermetic philosophy, Christian scripture and the works of poets, mystics, and missionaries in an attempt to understand the nature of God and her role in the divine plan.
Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2015-01-27
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0763678503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Platt weaves vast quantities of nautical information into a text as lively as it is absorbing." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Curious about life on a pirate ship? Check out PIRATE DIARY: THE JOURNAL OF JAKE CARPENTER, an account of adventure on the high seas as told by a feisty nine-year-old carpenter’s apprentice, circa 1716. Historically accurate illustrations of ship and crew, a map of Jake’s travels, and a detailed glossary and index vividly reveal the fascinating - and harsh - life of a pirate in the eighteenth century. Ships ahoy!
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 438
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