Beyond the Pyramids

‘To the western mind’, writes Douglas Kennedy, ‘Egypt has always been a land apart — the cradle of history and human culture, as one guidebook put it — filled with the symbolic left-behinds of one of civilization’s first big trial runs... But what about the modern state lurking behind this mythic realm? While countless travel chronicles have been written about Egypt the Immortal, few writers have ever undertaken journey through the contemporary Egyptian condition.’ In this clever, quirky and highly original travel book, Douglas Kennedy takes us on such a journey as he loiters with intent in…