Egypt
Cassandra Vivian
- Desert Rats 2nd Edition
[email protected] www.archaeopress.com Thanks very much to Mike Morrow for letting me know that the second edition of Desert RATS will be available for purchase soon. It consists of both a book and DVDs, which is great news. It is always good to see...
- Interview With Neil Hewison Re Faiyum Depression
Taiwan News (John Bordsen) Resident and author tells all about Fayoum, one of six main oases in the Western Desert of Egypt What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone...
- Travel: Camping In The Western Desert Of Egypt
Thanks to Ben for posting my article about the task of preparing for a holiday which includes several days camping in the Western Desert of Egypt on his All About Egypt website. He has organized it into 5 sections, with photographs: Desert travel http://www.all-about-egypt.com/sahara-desert-travel.html...
- Rock Art Topographical Survey - Second Edition
Thanks very much to Christopher Coleman for letting me know that the second edition of the Eastern Desert Rock Art Topographical Survey (edited by Maggie and Mike Morrow) has been announced and is due to be published in November 2008. This is a fully...
- Rock Arts Topographical Survey (rats)
http://www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury/ For anyone wondering what happened to the promised second volume of Desert RATS, here is a statement I found yesterday on the Bloomsbury Summer School website:"As a consequence of the insolvency of the original...
Egypt
Revised edition: The Western Desert of Egypt
Cassandra VivianThe Western Desert of Egypt
New Revised Edition 2008
AUC
The revised edition of the only handbook for exploring the Western Desert of Egypt has turned up on my doorstep this weekend. I ordered it around a year ago to replace my battered 2002 edition when it was listed as available for order on Amazon. At the time it had a delivery estimate of a couple of weeks, but I have been receiving apologies from Amazon ever since.
I only received the book on Saturday so other than the addition of some glossy colour photographs I don't know what the revised edition adds to the existing one because the preface doesn't say. But it has some more pages (459 in total as opposed to 426 in the 2002 edition).
If you are travelling into the Western Desert this is the only real print resource, other than the eternally useful and enjoyable Sahara Overland by Chris Scott (which has a supporting website). Sahara Overland is a glorious book about travel throughout the entire Sahara desert, but obviously covers the Egyptian Western Desert area in much less detail than Vivian's book. For those wondering about portability Vivian's book weighs c. 0.91kg (just over 2lbs).
New Revised Edition 2008
AUC
The revised edition of the only handbook for exploring the Western Desert of Egypt has turned up on my doorstep this weekend. I ordered it around a year ago to replace my battered 2002 edition when it was listed as available for order on Amazon. At the time it had a delivery estimate of a couple of weeks, but I have been receiving apologies from Amazon ever since.
I only received the book on Saturday so other than the addition of some glossy colour photographs I don't know what the revised edition adds to the existing one because the preface doesn't say. But it has some more pages (459 in total as opposed to 426 in the 2002 edition).
If you are travelling into the Western Desert this is the only real print resource, other than the eternally useful and enjoyable Sahara Overland by Chris Scott (which has a supporting website). Sahara Overland is a glorious book about travel throughout the entire Sahara desert, but obviously covers the Egyptian Western Desert area in much less detail than Vivian's book. For those wondering about portability Vivian's book weighs c. 0.91kg (just over 2lbs).
Vivian clearly shares the same concerns that many Western Desert travellers have about the impacts of tourism on the desert landscape. Growing numbers of visitors pose a potential threat to its beauty and to the lives of the people who dwell in and around the desert. She is careful to give GPS co-ordinates only for sites which she considers not to be at major risk and she makes an appeal to visitors to respect the desert, to move quietly through it and to be its friend. It has always seemed so strange to me, as it clearly does to Vivian, that some of the people who travel so far to see something so amazing, should treat the landscape and the archaeology such lack of care.
- Desert Rats 2nd Edition
[email protected] www.archaeopress.com Thanks very much to Mike Morrow for letting me know that the second edition of Desert RATS will be available for purchase soon. It consists of both a book and DVDs, which is great news. It is always good to see...
- Interview With Neil Hewison Re Faiyum Depression
Taiwan News (John Bordsen) Resident and author tells all about Fayoum, one of six main oases in the Western Desert of Egypt What's it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone...
- Travel: Camping In The Western Desert Of Egypt
Thanks to Ben for posting my article about the task of preparing for a holiday which includes several days camping in the Western Desert of Egypt on his All About Egypt website. He has organized it into 5 sections, with photographs: Desert travel http://www.all-about-egypt.com/sahara-desert-travel.html...
- Rock Art Topographical Survey - Second Edition
Thanks very much to Christopher Coleman for letting me know that the second edition of the Eastern Desert Rock Art Topographical Survey (edited by Maggie and Mike Morrow) has been announced and is due to be published in November 2008. This is a fully...
- Rock Arts Topographical Survey (rats)
http://www.egyptology-uk.com/bloomsbury/ For anyone wondering what happened to the promised second volume of Desert RATS, here is a statement I found yesterday on the Bloomsbury Summer School website:"As a consequence of the insolvency of the original...