How Many Miles to Babylon?

ANNE WOLFF was born in Cairo and has had a long-standing interest in the history, politics and culture of the Middle-East and Eurasia. She is an experienced and respected egyptologist who has developed close working relationships with staff in SACOS in the universities of Liverpool, Durham and Cambridge. She has presented a number of papers at the annual ASTENE conference (Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Neat East) and at other conferences, and she has published papers in the ASTENE Bulletin.

Preface
Permissions
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
1 The Mamluk Rulers of Egypt
2 Egypt Imagined and the Realities of the Voyage
3 The Maritime Port of Alexandria
4 Sailing Upstream to Cairo
5 Cairo: ‘Meeting Place of Comer and Goer’
6 Venetian Diplomacy and the Arrival of the Ottomans
7 Exploring the Pyramids and Mummy Fields
8 Pilgrims to the Monastery of St Catherine
9 Adventures with the Mecca Caravan
10 To the South
Appendices
Bibliography
Index