The Rise and Fall of Alexandria
Subtitle: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: October 19, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780670037971
Subjects: Ancient Egypt - History; Intellectual History; History; History - General History; History: World; Ancient - Egypt; History / Europe / Western; Western Europe - General; Alexandria (Egypt); Intellectual life
First sentence: From atop the walls of the castle of Qaitbey in Egypt you can look across the rocky coast on which the castle stands to where fishing boats still ride at anchor in the bay and local children fling themselves from the rocks into the warm, clear sea that la