Friends reminisce about the past during another friend's funeral in India and explore the possibility that one of them may have murdered the deceased in order to avoid a scandal involving the delivery
Today Afghanistan is considered a setting for conflict and turmoil, but the country has a long, rich history, largely a result of its designation as a center of migration and trade and its succession
Large-format, high-quality color and b&w photos and maps take readers on a journey to the marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in 1967, to discover a way of life 5,000 years old,
Jeffries (German history, U. of Manchester, UK) presents a cultural and historical guide to the city of Hamburg, Germany. After a brief history of the city, he describes its statues, monuments, and bu
The late Murnane, who specialized in ancient Egypt at the U. of Chicago, offers travelers and students a history and guide to Egypt that includes both public and private sites. He provides an introduc
Seeking someone to care for his motherless kittens, Sir Gatto, advisor to the Prince, hires a beautiful, but lazy girl, and then her plain, but loving stepsister.
"For ten years, photographer Deborah Shea Doyle traveled throughout Egypt -- from bustling Cairo to remote parts of the Sinai region -- to explore the landscape and learn about the lives of ordinary E
Interweaves the author's travels with a history of the American West, discussing historical events, including Louisiana Purchase, Butch Cassidy, and Lewis and Clark, along with stories of the settlers
Garrett, who has written widely on Renaissance and 19th-century literature, has lived in Cambridge since 1994, which might be considered a long time in, say, Phoenix. He looks at the university town f
