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Alexandria - The Last Nights of Cleopatra

By Peter Stothard

Book information

Publisher
The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers Inc
Year
2013
ISBN
9781468310399
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1326313 bytes)
Pages
400\0
Time added
2014-10-08 19:32:29

Description

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 cancelled, 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 was the sights and sounds of the ancient city to reconnect with the formative experiences of his childhood education, and his literary career. Melancholy and sometimes humorous, Alexandria offers a first-hand glimpse into the fracturing police state of Hosni Mubarak, before the uprising in Tahir Square changed everything.

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