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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.
Contents
PrefacePermissionsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsGlossaryIntroduction1 The Mamluk Rulers of Egypt2 Egypt Imagined and the Realities of the Voyage3 The Maritime Port of Alexandria4 Sailing Upstream to Cairo5 Cairo: `Meeting Place of Comer and Goer'6 Venetian Diplomacy and the Arrival of the Ottomans7 Exploring the Pyramids and Mummy Fields8 Pilgrims to the Monastery of St Catherine9 Adventures with the Mecca Caravan10 To the SouthAppendicesBibliographyIndex