“When the well is dr y , we know the worth of water” Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), January 1746. “The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives” Indian Pr overb Equitable apportionment and reasonable utilization and conservation of the available water resources is the main response to water scarcity of the twenty-first centur y .
At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta.
Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . “Mukasonga’s masterpiece” (Julian Lucas, NYRB) Scholastique Mukasonga drops us ...
An ingenious Egyptian slave girl undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes during the rule of Queen Hatshepsut.
For readers eager to discover more about the people and the wildlife that live along the Nile's banks, this guide to the longest river in the world contains a wealth of fascinating information.
Written by the polymath and physician ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al-Nāṣir, the first part of the book offers detailed descriptions of Egypt’s geography, plants, animals, and local cuisine, ...
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Brimming with adventure and the sparkling sensibilities of the two travellers, this mesmerizing debut novel offers a luminous combination of gorgeous prose and wild imagination, all of it coloured by the opulent tapestry of mid-nineteenth ...
Donna Jo Napoli, acclaimed author of Zel and Beast, revisits the fabled origin of fairies in this strikingly orig-inal and affecting novel of friendship.
By this account, when Paris carried off Helen from Sparta, he was blown off course to the Canopic mouth of the Nile. Paris' servants deserted their master and accused him to Thonis, the warden of this Nilotic mouth, of stealing Helen ...
Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary Alex Dika Seggerman ... pursuits must exceed knowledge for personal gain; rather, our research, writing, teaching, curating, and speaking mustwork to engender empathy for others.