Beyond the Pyramids Travels in Egypt Author:Douglas Kennedy A delightfully wry chronicle of travels througha country of incongruity - an Egypt encompassing a diversity of cultural influences which often belies its image of 'archaeological theme park'. — With an acute eye for the unusual, the intersting, or the plain absurd, Douglas Kennedy takes us on a continually surprising tour beyond the pyram... more »ids, to a place where Bedouin in an oasis watch American television; where monks in the desert are computer literate; and where an entire community of Cairo's poor has set up home in a cemetery.