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

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

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Main Author: Wolff, Anne, 1982- (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, c2003.

Subjects:

Europeans > Egypt > History.
Travelers > Egypt > History.
Egypt > Description and travel.
Egypt > History > 1250-1517.
Egypt > History > 1517-1882.

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Call Number: DT49.98 .W65 2003

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.