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Autore |
Wolff Anne |
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Titolo |
How many miles to Babylon? : travels and adventures to Egypt and beyond, 1300 to 1640 / / Anne Wolff |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-673-0 |
1-84631-329-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Liverpool Science Fiction Texts |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Travelers - Egypt - History |
Europeans - Egypt - History |
Egypt Description and travel |
Egypt History 1250-1517 |
Egypt History 1517-1882 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-296) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 1517 Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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