How Many Miles to Babylon? Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, 1300 to 1640

Table of contents

• How Many Miles to Babylon? *
• Title Page *
• Contents *
• Preface ix
• Permissions x
• List of Illustrations xi
• List of Abbreviations xv
• Glossary xvi
• Introduction 1
• Notes *
• Chapter 1 - The Mamluk Rulers of Egypt 14
• Notes 39
• Chapter 2 - Egypt Imagined and the Realities of the Voyage 40
• Notes *
• Chapter 3 - The Maritime Port of Alexandria 61
• Notes 96
• Chapter 4 - The Mamluk Rulers of Egypt 97
• Notes *
• Chapter 5 - Cairo: ‘meeting Place of Comer and Goer’ 112
• Notes *
• Chapter 6 - Venetian Diplomacy and the Arrival of the Ottomans 151
• Notes *
• Chapter 7 - Exploring the Pyramids and Mummy Fields 167
• Notes *
• Chapter 8 - Pilgrims to the Monastery of St Catherine 195
• Notes *
• Chapter 9 - Adventures with the Mecca Caravan 233
• Notes *
• Chapter 10 - To the South 250
• Notes *
• Appendix 1 - Europeans in Egypt in the Reigns of the Mamluk Sultans Up to 1517 285
• Appendix 2 - Europeans in Egypt in the Reigns of the Ottoman Sultans after 1517 286
• Bibliography 287
• Index 297

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