Cairo: The City Victorious - Hardcover

Rodenbeck, Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330337092 ISBN 13: 9780330337090

Verlag: Picador, 1998

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Reseña del editor:

Every great city deserves a book like this one: a sweeping chronicle by an author whose motives mix passion and bewilderment. Over the course of four and a half millennia, Cairo has eluded all who would try to pin it down, reinventing itself time and again: "It has survived countless invasions, booms and busts, famines, plagues, and calamities." Author Max Rodenbeck, a correspondent for the Economist, moved to Cairo as a 2 year old, and has spent a good portion of his professional life working there. He finds himself repulsed by the crowds and pollution of a late 20th-century megacity, yet drawn by Cairo's ageless vibrancy. Cairo: The City Victorious combines wide-ranging history and first-person travelogue in an unconventional narrative that bounces easily from the present to the past and back again. ("If the story were to loop and tangle and digress," he writes, "well, that too would be in the character of Cairo.") Immersed in Rodenbeck's prose, readers will find themselves feeling at home as they discover (or rediscover) this unique place, its pyramids, and its people.

Reseña del editor:

A biography of Cairo, the city which the Arabs call "The Victorius". This book traces the life of Cairo from birth - the Ancient Egyptians believed Creation itself took place there - through the heights of medieval times and down to the present day.

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• Verlag: Picador
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0330337092
• ISBN 13: 9780330337090
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400