- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Epigraph
-
1 Introduction -
I: Geography -
2 Imagining the Nile -
3 The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta -
4 The Western Delta in the Islamic Era -
5 The Eastern Delta in the Islamic Era -
6 The Bahr Yusuf -
II: Navigation -
7 The Nile Flood Cycle -
8 Propulsion -
9 Local Hazards -
10 Nile Journey Times -
11 Onward Connections -
III: Ports and the Navigational Landscape -
12 The Ports of Fustat and Cairo -
13 Ports of the Western Delta -
14 Ports of the Eastern Delta -
15 Ports of the Red Sea -
16 Conclusion -
Appendix 1: Historical Cartography -
Appendix 2: Geographic Reconstructions -
Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Delta place names mentioned by Ibn Hawqal and al-Idrisi - References
- Index
Nile Journey Times
Nile Journey Times
- Chapter:
- (p.155) 10 Nile Journey Times
- Source:
- The Medieval Nile
- Author(s):
John P. Cooper
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
This chapter uses data from the travel accounts of people sailing on the river in the medieval and early modern periods to establish typical times taken to travel between key locations on the Egyptian Nile using pre-modern sailing technology and in conditions that existed before the damming of the Nile. In particular it investigates river journey times in Upper Egypt between Cairo, Qus and Aswan, and also the overland journey times between these cities to the Red Sea ports of al-Quseir and ‘Aydhab. In the Delta it looks at the times taken to travel between Cairo and Alexandria, Rosetta, Damietta, Tinnis and al-Qulzum. Where possible, it considers the seasons in which those journeys took place, and relates the experiences of individual travellers.
Keywords: Egypt, Nile, river, navigation, journey times, Upper Egypt, Nile Delta
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Epigraph
-
1 Introduction -
I: Geography -
2 Imagining the Nile -
3 The Pre-Islamic Nile Delta -
4 The Western Delta in the Islamic Era -
5 The Eastern Delta in the Islamic Era -
6 The Bahr Yusuf -
II: Navigation -
7 The Nile Flood Cycle -
8 Propulsion -
9 Local Hazards -
10 Nile Journey Times -
11 Onward Connections -
III: Ports and the Navigational Landscape -
12 The Ports of Fustat and Cairo -
13 Ports of the Western Delta -
14 Ports of the Eastern Delta -
15 Ports of the Red Sea -
16 Conclusion -
Appendix 1: Historical Cartography -
Appendix 2: Geographic Reconstructions -
Appendix 3: Gazetteer of Delta place names mentioned by Ibn Hawqal and al-Idrisi - References
- Index