How many miles to Babylon? : travels and adventures to Egypt and beyond, 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: Wolff, Anne (Autor)
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.
TRAVEL > Africa > General.
Europeans
Travel
Travelers
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
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781781386736
1781386730
9781846313295
1846313295

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