Author: RODENBECK, MAX.
Title: Cairo: The City Victorious.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xviii, 395; illustrated endpapers, 1 full page map, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in silver on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. London; Picador; 1998. A biography of the city, after five thousand years of continuous habitation Cairo remains the greatest metropolis in its quarter of the globe. The seat of pharaohs and sultans, the prize of conquerors from Alexander to Napoleon, the city has never stopped reinventing itself. 'The Victorious' is what the Arabs call Cairo, and the indomitable spirit of the place still merits the name.

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