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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wolff, Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2003]
Series:Liverpool Science Fiction Texts.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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

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