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73Best Books About Egypt & North Africa
Even before the 2011 Jasmine revolution and other democracy movements across North Africa and the Middle East, there's amazing history and culture to discover. From the ancient Romans and Carthiginians through the Arab, Berber and Ottoman times, it's an area that many Americans have neglected. Here are my recommendations for background reading on Egypt and North Africa
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70Best Books About Venice
Nobody arrives in Venice and sees the city for the first time. Depicted and described so often that its image has become part of the European collective consciousness, Venice can initially create the slightly anticlimactic feeling that everything looks exactly as it should. The water-lapped palaces along the Canal Grande are just as the brochure photographs made them out to be, Piazza San Marco does indeed look as perfect as a film set, and the panorama across the water from the Palazzo Ducale i
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68How to Select a Travel Guide
It was a lot easier 20-30 years ago when travel book choices for the more exotic destinations were limited. You went to the bookstore and hoped there might be ONE book about your destination. Now there are...
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