Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra,Peter Stothard- 9781847

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Powered by Frooition.com\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\n--\n\nAll Items\n See our eBay store for more great items >> \n\nShop Categories\n\n \n{Title}, {ItemCondition}\n\n--\n\n--\n\nFinding himself in Alexandria in the winter of 2010, Peter Stothard, editor of the TLS and former editor of The Times, is forced to contemplate his past in circumstances he does not expect. The aftermath of a bombing and the onset of the Arab Spring place obstacles in his plans to complete a long-delayed biography of Cleopatra. Minded by two guides, whose motives are mixed and mysterious, he visits Alexandria's ancient sites and revisits places and people from his own life, an Essex childhood among military engineers, Latin and Greek at .