Alexandria : the city that changed the world
(2024, original release: 2023)
By:
Issa, Islam
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW HISTORY
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Pegasus Books, 2024
EDITION
First Pegasus Books cloth edition
DESCRIPTION
476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781639365456, 1639365451 :, 1639365451, 9781639365456
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence