Pocket Atlas Of The Sinai Peninsula: Discovering A Historical Landscape

ISBN-10: 3844260110
ISBN-13: 9783844260113
Category: Travel
Pages: 272
Language: English
Published: 2013-07-26
Publisher: epubli
Author: Ahmed Shams

Description

This very first complete and fully indexed atlas for the Sinai Peninsula features 121 maps with 4486 named-coded items. SINAI PENINSULA RESEARCH 2000-2013 CE ‘S.P.R’ survey and documentation fieldwork by Ahmed Shams, PhD, presents the most comprehensive and updated maps for the Sinai Peninsula, covering an area of 60,710 square kilometers. Between 2000 and 2008 (Phase I) a series of seventeen expeditions were conducted in order to study the geography and human occupation development of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula. Between 2010 and 2013 (Phase II), further extensive analysis and modeling process, via a PhD study, was supervised and sponsored by IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy; scientifically collaborating with the European Research Academy - EURAC ‘Institute for Alpine Environment’, Bolzano/Bozen, towards a global perspective. This unique assemblage of compact, pocket-sized, full colour and detailed atlas presents the Sinai Peninsula Map ‘SPM’, one of the two major outcomes of phase I (in addition to Tur Sina Map ‘TSM’), both are ideal for eco and cultural tourism travellers and trekkers, and specialists alike, including geographers, geologists and environmentalists; historians, archaeologists and anthropologists; and rural developers.

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