How Many Miles to Babylon?: Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, From 1300 to 1640 PDF
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How Many Miles to Babylon? Filippo Pigafetta’s map of Africa How Many Miles to Babylon? Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, 1300 to 1640 ANNE WOLFF LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS First published 2003 by Liverpool University Press 4 Cambridge Street Liverpool L69 7ZU Copyright © 2003 Anne Wolff The right of Anne Wolff to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data A British Library CIP record is available ISBN 0-85323-658-5 cased 0-85323-668-2 limp Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed and bound in the European Union by Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King’s Lynn For Edwin How many miles to Babylon? Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You may get there by candle-light. Songs for the Nursery(1805) Contents Preface ix Permissions x List of Illustrations xi List of Abbreviations xv Glossary xvi Introduction 1 1 The Mamluk Rulers of Egypt 14 2 Egypt Imagined and the Realities of the Voyage 40 3 The Maritime Port of Alexandria 61 4 Sailing Upstream to Cairo 97 5 Cairo: ‘Meeting Place of Comer and Goer’ 112 6 Venetian Diplomacy and the Arrival of the Ottomans 151 7 Exploring the Pyramids and Mummy Fields 167 8 Pilgrims to the Monastery of St Catherine 195 9 Adventures with the Mecca Caravan 233 10To the South 250 Appendices 285 Bibliography 287 Index 297
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