Title How many miles to Babylon? : travels and adventures to Egypt and beyond, 1300 to 1640 / Anne Wolff

Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2003] ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Liverpool Science Fiction Texts Liverpool Science Fiction Texts Contents Title Page; Contents; Preface; Permissions; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Introduction; 1: The Mamluk Rulers of Egypt; 2: Egypt Imagined and the Realities of the Voyage; 3: The Maritime Port of Alexandria; 4: Sailing Upstream to Cairo; 5: Cairo: 'meeting place of comer and goer'; 6: Venetian Diplomacy and the Arrival of the Ottomans; 7: Exploring the Pyramids and Mummy Fields; 8: Pilgrims to the Monastery of St Catherine; 9: Adventures with the Mecca Caravan; 10: To the South; Appendix 1: Europeans in Egypt in the Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans up to 1517 Appendix 2: Europeans in Egypt in the Reigns of the Ottoman Sultans after 1517Bibliography; Index Summary How Many Miles to Babylon? uses the writing of European travellers to Egypt between c. 1300 and c. 1600 to give a picture of the country in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods, drawing on sources that have hitherto been inaccessible to English-speaking audiences. These accounts portray an Egypt ruled by the despotic Mamluk sultans and the early Ottoman governors, a society at once cruel and sophisticated, dangerous and alluring. The Europeans? wonderment at the exotic flora and fauna, the ancient ruins of temples and pyramids, and the astonishing summer rise of the Nile to irrigate Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Travelers -- Egypt Europeans -- Egypt -- History TRAVEL -- Africa -- General. Europeans Travel Travelers SUBJECT Egypt -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041273 Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041295 Egypt -- History -- 1517-1882. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041297 Subject Egypt Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2004380581 ISBN 9781781386736 1781386730 9781846313295 1846313295

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