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.
Finally, the book looks at how the main Delta and Red Sea ports of
medieval Egypt fitted into the navigational landscape described: it
explains how these ports were effected by changes occurring to the
navigational landscape, and how they reflected the navigational
conditions of the Nile and surrounding seas. The book is richly
illustrated with maps and images.
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