How Many Miles to Babylon? : Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, From 1300 to 1640.

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wollf, Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003.
Colección:Liverpool Science Fiction Texts.
Temas:
1250-1882
Travelers > Egypt.
Europeans > Egypt > History.
Voyageurs > Égypte.
Européens > Égypte > Histoire.
Europeans
Travel
Travelers
Abenteuer
Egypt > Description and travel.
Egypt > History > 1250-1517.
Egypt > History > 1517-1882.
Égypte > Descriptions et voyages.
Égypte > Histoire > 1250-1517.
Égypte > Histoire > 1517-1882.
Egypt
Ägypten
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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