The medieval Nile : route, navigation, and landscape in Islamic Egypt
Cooper, John P.Author
This title 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; traveller accounts; archaeology; and meterological, hydrological and geological studies.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This title 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; traveller accounts; archaeology; and meterological, hydrological and geological studies.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 1, 2015).
Navigation
Landscape changes
Waterways
History & Archaeology
Regions & Countries - Africa
Egypt Cairo.