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How Many Miles to Babylon?: Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, From 1300 to 1640: European Travels and Adventures in Egypt 1300-1600 [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover
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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 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 travellers' 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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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ANNE WOLFF was born in Cairo and has had a long-standing interest in the history, politics and culture of the Middle-East and Eurasia. She is an experienced and respected egyptologist who has developed close working relationships with staff in SACOS in the universities of Liverpool, Durham and Cambridge. She has presented a number of papers at the annual ASTENE conference (Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Neat East) and at other conferences, and she has published papers in the ASTENE Bulletin.
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- VerlagLiverpool University Press
- Erscheinungsdatum2003
- ISBN 10 0853236682
- ISBN 13 9780853236689
- EinbandTapa blanda
- Anzahl der Seiten324
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How Many Miles to Babylon? Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, from 1300 to 1640.
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Liverpool, Liverpool University Press. 2003, 2003
ISBN 10: 0853236682
ISBN 13: 9780853236689
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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., Artikel-Nr. 162599
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