Paris Along the Nile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paris Along the Nile write by Cynthia Myntti. This book was released on 2014. Paris Along the Nile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cairo, 'Mother of the World': its vividly diverse neighborhoods and building styles reveal its cosmopolitan energy and reflect the myriad of economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the city over the centuries. So impressed was Khedive Ismail after a visit to Haussman's 'new' Paris in 1867 that he decided to build a modern city along the same architectural lines and aesthetics, and brought European architects to Cairo to initiate Egypt's most dynamic building period since medieval times. The stunning buildings of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Cairo remain, but they are neglected, threatened by pollution, and are being pulled down for concrete highrises and parking lots. Paris along the Nile captures in 200 black-and-white photographs the architectural jewels of 'modern' Cairo.
Return to Paris
Return to Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Return to Paris write by Colette Rossant. This book was released on 2010-05-11. Return to Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paris, 1947: Colette Rossant returns to Paris after waiting out World War II in Cairo among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. Initially, the City of Light seems gray and forbidding to the teenage Colette, especially after her thrill-seeking mother leaves her in the care of her bitter, malaisé grandmother. Yet Paris will prove the place where Colette awakens to her senses. Taken under the wing of Mademoiselle Georgette, the family chef, she develops a taste and talent for French cooking. The streets of Paris soon become Colette's own as she navigates the outdoor markets and café menus and emerges into her new, gastronomical self. Return to Paris is an extraordinary coming-of-age story that charts the course of Colette's culinary adventures -- replete with expertly crafted recipes and family photographs. An exploration of passion in all its flavor and texture, Colette's memoir will live in the hearts and palates of readers for years to come.
Our Lady of the Nile
Our Lady of the Nile - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Lady of the Nile write by Scholastique Mukasonga. This book was released on 2014-09-16. Our Lady of the Nile available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . “Mukasonga’s masterpiece” (Julian Lucas, NYRB) Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents’ preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycée into a microcosm of the country’s mounting racial tensions and violence. In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, prejudice, and persecution. With masterful prose that is at once subtle and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling towards horror.
The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris
The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris write by Jean-Babtiste Apollinaire Lebas. This book was released on 2021-03-08. The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extraordinary story of how an obelisk from the banks of Luxor was transferred to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in the early 19th century Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas, a man of extraordinary resolve and ability. His is a tale of adventure, excitement, and drama, but one hardly known to the English-speaking world. Lebas’ team was struck by the plague; they ran out of wood; they had to wait four months for the Nile to rise to free their beached ship. But in the end, The Luxor, with its precious cargo on board, sailed down the Nile. On October 25, 1836 before two hundred thousand cheering Parisians, Lebas raised his obelisk. He was rewarded handsomely by his king, a medal with his name on it was struck, and his body lies in the famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris along with French luminaries. Now this first-ever translation of Lebas’s account, including digitally enhanced copies of his beautiful drawings, makes his remarkable story available to a wide audience.
A Giraffe Goes to Paris
A Giraffe Goes to Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Giraffe Goes to Paris write by Mary Tavener Holmes. This book was released on 2010. A Giraffe Goes to Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A giraffe causes a sensation when he walks 500 miles to Paris
