Product Description: From Michael Haag, the international bestselling author of The Templars: The History & the Myth and The Tragedy of the Templars, comes a fascinating account of one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in religious history...read more

Product Description: An all-inclusive guide to key concepts and details about Dan Brown’s novel Inferno—featuring black-and-white illustrations.What is the real truth behind the mysteries of Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster thriller? In this illuminating unofficial companion to Dan Brown’s Inferno, popular historian Michael Haag, author of the bestselling Rough Guide to the Da Vinci Code, unpacks Dante’s allegorical poetic masterpiece of the same name, delivering fascinating, crucial background for the characters, settings, and riddles in Brown’s controversial and compel­ling world...read more

From Michael Haag, bestselling author of The Templars: The History and the Myth, comes The Tragedy of the Templars, an exciting new look at the rise of Templar power and the saga of their destruction. Founded on Christmas Day 1119 in Jerusalem, the Knights Templar was a religious order dedicated to defending the Holy Land and its Christian pilgrims in the decades after the First Crusade. Legendary for their bravery and dedication, the Templars became one of the wealthiest and most powerful bodies of the medieval world—and the chief defenders of Christian society against growing Muslim forces. In The Tragedy of the Templars: The Rise and Fall of the Crusader States, Haag masterfully details the conflicts and betrayals that sent this faction of powerful knights spiraling from domination to condemnation. This stirring and thoroughly researched work of historical investigation includes maps and full-color photographs of important cultural sites, many of which doubled as battlefields during the Crusades.

Product Description: The traveller guides series are informative and concise, and are aimed at mainstream travelers wanting to discover something a little different on their trip. These indispensable guides offer the perfect blend of culture, history, practical information, mapping, photography and listings...read more

Product Description: Dan Brown's new thriller "The Lost Symbol" is the biggest global publishing phenomenon since his runaway bestseller "The Da Vinci Code". The new adventures of mystery-solving Professor of Symbology, Robert Langdon have attracted huge global interest and fresh controversies concerning Dan Brown's ideas, characters and thoughts on mythology and history...read more

Product Description: Explore the land of the Pharaohs with Cadogan's passionate and informative guide. Whether you are wanting to relax along Egypt's coastline or immerse yourself in the country's fascinating history, Cadogan is the only companion you'll need.

Product Description: Eminent Egypt chronicler, Michael Haag, takes you on a journey down the Nile, past Cairo's fine medieval architecture and gleaming skyscrapers to the extraordinary temples of Luxor and Karnak and the breathtaking tombs at the Valley of the Kings...read more

Product Description: Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan all run alongside one of Egypt's most famous features, the river Nile, but all have their own distinct character. Cairo, the most well-known, is both one of the world's finest medieval cities and a vibrant metropolis, and is the perfect base for exploring Egypt's great Pyramids...read more

Product Description: Using vintage photographs from the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth, many of them from private family albums, this book brings to life the world of that vanished Alexandria, a vibrant, stylish, and cosmopolitan city, the largest port in the Mediterranean, that was the prosperous gateway between Egypt and the world...read more

Product Description: An order of warrior monks founded after the First Crusade to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars developed into one of the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, the Knights were suddenly arrested and accused of blasphemy, heresy and orgies, their order was abolished, and their leaders burnt at the stake...read more

Examines the historical facts and myths behind the best-selling novel, including discussions on the Templars, the Holy Grail, and the apocryphal gospels; a tour guide to sites of interest; and reviews of sources used by the author.

Product Description: In The Lost Oases, Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Hassanein tells how he set out by camel from Egypt's Mediterranean coast west of Mersa Matruh, heading for the oases of Siwa and Kufra and into the unknown reaches of the Libyan Desert. His perilous eight-month journey in 1923took him around the western edges of the Great Sand Sea to El Obeid in the Sudan, a distance of 2200 miles, and lead him to the discovery of the lost oases of Arkenu and Uweinat at the extreme southwest corner of Egypt...read more

Product Description: Covering the very best of country, regional and city destinations, Travellers offer the perfect balance of culture, history, people and environment, as well as top sights, practical information and listings.   Each destination presents all the major places of interest - plus some hidden ones too...read more

Product Description: Enjoy Egypt's three great cities with Cadogan's unique guide. It's the ideal companion for either a three-destination break or exploring the cities individually.

Examines the historical facts and myths behind the best-selling novel, including discussions on the Templars, the Holy Grail, and the 'Apocryphal Gospels'; a tour guide to sites of interest; and reviews of sources used by the author.

Product Description: Alexandria has had a checkered history since its foundation by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. From its glorious days as the intellectual center of the Hellenistic and early Christian world, it declined into a near-forgotten backwater with a population of only a few thousand at the time of the French invasion of 1798...read more

Book by Roger E. Schechter