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Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra Signed first edition.
de Stothard, Peter
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1847087035
- ISBN 13
- 9781847087034
- Librería
-
Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Granta, 2013. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. Signed by the author. Granta Publications, London, 2013. First edition, signed by the author. Book condition: near fine and unread. Dust jacket: very good. Unclipped and with minor edge wear only. Finding himself in Alexandria in the winter of 2010, Peter Stothard, editor of the TLS, is forced to contemplate his past in circumstances he does not expect. The aftermath of a bombing and the onset of the Arab Spring complicate his plans to complete a long-delayed biography of Cleopatra. Minded by two guids whose motives are mysterious, he visits Alexandria's ancient sites and revisits places and people from his own life. In this extraordinary book, part memoir and part travel literature, written against the background of the fracturing police state of Egypt, a man and a woman from the author's schooldays are as present as the political minders of today.
Sinopsis
When Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement , finds himself stranded in Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South Africa has been canceled, he sets out to explore a nation on the brink of revolution. Guided by two native Egyptians, Stothard traces his own life-long interest in the history of Cleopatra, and his repeated failure to write the book about her that he had always wanted to. In Alexandria , part memoir and part travel literature, Stothard uses the sights and sounds of the ancient city to reconnect with the formative experiences of his childhood education and his literary career. Melancholy and often humorous, Alexandria offers a first-hand glimpse into the fracturing police state of Honsi Mubarak, before the uprising in Tahrir Square changed everything.
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- Librería
- Ariadne Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1304238
- Título
- Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra Signed first edition.
- Autor
- Stothard, Peter
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1847087035
- ISBN 13
- 9781847087034
- Editorial
- Granta
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2013
- Palabras clave
- Autobiography,Travel in Egypt,Alexandria,Cleopatra
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Autobiography, Diaries & Memoirs;
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Ariadne Books
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- First Edition
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