Alexandria : the city that changed the world /
City that changed the world
Islam Issa.
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- 476 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [433]-459) and index.
An award-winning British-Egyptian writer presents an authoritative history of the first modern city and how it has shaped our modern world, including its role as a global capital of knowledge as well as the site of plagues and violence.