How Many Miles to Babylon? - Anne Wollf
Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, From 1300 to 1640
KORTE INHOUD
How Many Miles to Babylon? uses the writing of European travelers 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 the crops and replenish the lakes and waterways of Cairo is well conveyed by these travelers’ tales. How Many Miles to Babylon? is a fascinating picture of the people, customs and culture of Egypt from the fourteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth.
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2003Uitgever: Liverpool University Press256 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0853236682ISBN-13: 9780853236689Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: frontispiece, xiv, (ii), 312pp., many illustrations, references, list abbreviations, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new., Liverpool, Liverpool University Press. 2003 [Auteur: WOLFF, ANNE] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: How Many Miles to Babylon? Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, from 1300 to 1640.]
