The medieval Nile route, navigation, and landscape in Islamic Egypt
University of Southampton, 2008, Thesis (Ph.D.)
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| Sprache: | eng |
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American University in Cairo Press
2014
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> History
> Landscape changes
> Waterways
> Nile River
> Geography
> Environmental conditions
> Egypt
> Hochschulschrift
> Nil
> Geschichte
> Ägypten
> Islam
> Nautik
> Ackerbau
> Handelsstraße
> Siedlungsarchäologie
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | University of Southampton, 2008, Thesis (Ph.D.) Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-407) The book presents a ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt by drawing on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and geological studies. Its first major section charts the changing geography of the Nile waterways, particularly in the Delta, from the eve of Islam to the early modern period, and logs the "rise and fall" of these waterways for natural and/or anthropogenic reasons. The book then presents a new perspective on the Nile: it draws on traveler accounts and environmental data to portray the river as a uniquely challenging and sometimes dangerous navigational environment requiring extensive local knowledge by skilled and hard-working Nile navigators Nile River; navigation; history |
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| Beschreibung: | XVII, 421 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 23 cm |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9774166140 977-416-614-0 9789774166143 978-977-416-614-3 |