Description of Egypt
By: [publieé par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte ; conception, text and] edited by Gilles Néret ; [English translation: Chris Miller and Simon Pleasance ; German translation: Bettina Blumenberg]
Contributors: Gilles Neret (Editor)
Series: Icons; TASCHEN Icons Series
Publisher: Taschen
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Köln, Germany [etc.]
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9783822855539
Subjects: Photographs: collections; History; History - General History; Travel; Egypt; Ancient - Egypt
First sentence: "Soldiers, from the height of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on you ..."; thus Napoleon is said to have addressed his troops shortly before the Battle of the Pyramids (21 July, 1798).
Notes: Bovenaan titelp.: Napoleon and the pharaohs.
De teksten in het Engels, Frans en Duits.