Alexandria: Illustrated

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Summary: Atmospheric journey through a magical city
Review: Michael Haag's book of photographs and text on Alexandria, Egypt, is an atmospheric journey through a city that he has sensitively brought to life and made magical. Through his eyes you taste something of the old cosmopolitan city as it was in the the 1920s, 30s and 40s -- the city described in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. If you have ever wondered about that evocative city, this book will present it to you tangibly in photographs. It is a wonderful book for the armchair traveller, and also for the visitor to Alexandria today. I cannot praise it highly enough.