Saturday, June 19, 2021

SOLD Travel writers of yesterday and today describe the charms of Cairo

 





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Slight but visible coffee mug stains on front cover. HB. 175pp. $15 including postage anywhere in Australia.

Contributors include Naghib Mahfouz, Michael Palin and Lawrence of Arabia. 

The night scene in the city is very striking for its vastness and loneliness. Everybody has gone to rest long before ten oclock. There are no lights in the enormous buildings; only the stars blazing above, with their astonishing brilliancy, in the blue, peaceful sky.

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