Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- 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
- Europeans in Egypt in the Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans up to 1517
- Europeans in Egypt in the Reigns of the Ottoman Sultans after 1517
- Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- 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
- Europeans in Egypt in the Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans up to 1517
- Europeans in Egypt in the Reigns of the Ottoman Sultans after 1517
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- How Many Miles to Babylon?Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, From 1300 to 1640, pp. i - ivPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2003