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Review Footprint Handbooks, the best of the best! -- Le Monde, Paris Product Description From the Libyan border in the west to the coastal resorts of the Red Sea and from Alexandria to Aswan, the Footprint Egypt Handbook contains more information than any rival publication. Updated and revised by a team who know Egypt and the whole region inside out, this third edition is in the highly acclaimed Footprint paperback format. It includes highlights of Egypt with colour photography, coverage of all the "not to be missed" sites plus much more off the beaten track, Nile cruises - how to organise them and how to survive them, diving in the Red Sea in addition to colour maps to help plan your journey and keep you orientated. From the Publisher Dear Fellow Traveller Thank you for checking out the Egypt Handbook. Footprint are an independent British publisher (based in Bath). We specialise in providing travellers with guide books that are second to none in terms of accuracy, recency and especially coverage. You will find that most of out guides are simply the most comprehensive available with in-depth information on history, culture and customs as well as practical travel information. Our major titles are updated ANNUALLY to ensure you ahve the best information to hand. If there are no reviews for the particualr title we recommend you check out the reader reviews on the Peru and South American Handbooks which give a good flavour of how useful our guides are. You might like to know that we also publish Israel and Jordan Handbooks and an extremely useful general guide to travelling: The Traveller's Handbook. Finally, whichever guide book you choose, we would like to wish you an exciting, illuminating and above all enoyable trip! Best wishes Footprint About the Author Keith is a professional traveller and analyst in Egypt and the wider Middle East. He previously lectured at the London School of Oriental and African Studies and is a well known s