Egypt

Readers travel the Nile through a large collection of color photographs. The tour takes in the famous monuments and treasures of Giza and Saqqara, with their pyramids, and the temples and tombs of Thebes. It also reaches lesser-known places in the Delta, the Faiyum, Sinai and Nubia. Alongside the images, the text traces roughly five thousand years of Egyptian history, from the earliest pharaohs to the present-day Arab republic.

Each site appears with a plan and photographs of its major buildings and of objects found there, so the artworks can be seen where they were made. Commissioned cross-section diagrams, a double-page fold-out map of the Nile's course and an illustrated glossary round out the book's survey of Egyptian civilization.