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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cooper, John P.
Titre(s) : The medieval Nile [Texte imprimé] : route, navigation, and landscape in Islamic Egypt / John P. Cooper
Publication : Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press, 2014
Description matérielle : xvii, 421 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Part 1. Geography ; Imagining the Nile ; The Pre-Islamic Nile delta ; The western
delta in the Islamic Era ; The Eastern delta in the Ismamic Era ; The Bahr Yusuf
; Part 2. Navigation ; The Nile flood cycle ; Propulsion: Wind, current, and human
labor ; Local hazards: Mouths, cataracts, and mountains ; Nile journey times ;
Onward connections: The Mediterranean and Red Seas ; Part 3. Ports and the navigational
landscape ; The ports of Fustat and Cairo ; Ports of the Western delta ; Ports
of the Eastern delta ; Ports of the Red Sea.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-407) and index
"An interdisciplinary study that draws together geography, historical navigation data,
and eyewitness accounts into a comprehensive picture of one of the world's great rivers.
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. Finally, he
looks at how the main Delta and Red Sea ports of medieval Egypt fitted into the navigational
landscape described, explaining how these ports were affected by changes occurring
to the navigational landscape, and how they reflected the navigational conditions
of the Nile and surrounding seas"--From the publisher
Sujet(s) : Navigation -- Nil (cours d'eau) -- Moyen âge
Paysage -- Nil, Vallée du -- Moyen âge
Nil (cours d'eau) -- Moyen âge
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789774166143. - ISBN 9774166140
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44516592d
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