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The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt

The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt

Cooper, John P.

Hardcover

BoatingEnvironmental StudiesGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 9774166140
ISBN13: 9789774166143
Publisher: Amer Univ In Cairo Pr
Published: Jan 14 2015
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and geological studies.
John Cooper first 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. He then presents a new perspective on the Nile, drawing 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.

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