Dr Kent Weeks, Theban Mapping Project She was truly a pioneer: imagine one person heading off in a single vehicle into the most barren landscape on earth, the Sahara Desert, searching for archeological sites and remote living cultures, recording what she saw in careful detail, and helping the modern world to appreciate it and safeguard it,” Weeks wrote in an email. I don’t exaggerate when I say that we’ve profitable consulted it thousands of times in our office over the past couple of years. It has proven of great use to us in our work and a boon companion when we’ve had a chance to venture into the field.

– Library Journal In the meantime, I simply want to thank you for having produced in The Western Desert of Egypt, an exemplary book on Egyptian sites. Almost encyclopedic in its scope, this is the one guide that belongs on the bookshelf, dashboard, or rucksack of every Western Desert traveler. Global positioning system (GPS) waypoints are provided as an aid to navigation on many routes-though for the sake of conservation and the protection of unguarded antiquities they are not given for remote sites. Descriptions of routes, sites, people, and places are complemented by practical information on places to stay, eat, and fill your gas tank. It then explores chapter by chapter the oases of Kharga, Dakhla, Farafra, Bahariya, Fayoum, and Siwa, and the desert areas of al Diffa (the northern, semiarid edge of the desert), the Darb al-Arbain caravan route in the south, and Uwaynat (including Gilf Kebir) in the southwest.

Fully illustrated with some 50 maps and plans and over 270 drawings, the guide covers both the natural history and the human history of the desert and the oases.

THE WESTERN DESERT OF EGYPT AN EXPLORER’S HANDBOOK CASSANDRA VIVIAN Already the most comprehensive guide ever for desert and oasis travel in Egypt west of the Nile, The Western Desert of Egypt: An Explorer’s Handbook has now been fully revised and updated for the latest generation of twenty-first century desert adventurers.

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