| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Travelers -- Egypt.
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Travelers. |
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Egypt. |
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Europeans -- Egypt -- History.
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Europeans. |
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History. |
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Egypt -- Description and travel.
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Egypt -- History -- 1250-1517.
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| Chronological Term |
1250-1517 |
| Subject |
Egypt -- History -- 1517-1882.
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| Chronological Term |
1517-1882 |
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1250-1882 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wolff, Anne. How many miles to Babylon?. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2004380581 (OCoLC)51108771 |
| ISBN |
9781781386736 (electronic book) |
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1781386730 (electronic book) |
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9781846313295 (electronic book) |
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1846313295 (electronic book) |
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9780853236580 |
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0853236585 |
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9780853236689 |
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0853236682 |
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