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OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20160811081446.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789774166143 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
HLS |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
NVIC |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
OCLCO |
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YDXCP |
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OCLCF |
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XII |
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DLC |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
John P. Cooper |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Medieval Nile: |
| Remainder of title |
Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cairo; |
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New York: |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
The American University in Cairo Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2014 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvii, 421 p., |
| Other physical details |
ill. (some color), maps (some color); |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-407) and index. |
| 520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Navigation |
| Geographic subdivision |
Nile River |
| General subdivision |
History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Landscape changes |
| Geographic subdivision |
Nile River region |
| General subdivision |
History |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Waterways |
| Geographic subdivision |
Egypt |
| General subdivision |
History |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Nile River |
| General subdivision |
History |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Nile River |
| General subdivision |
Environmental conditions |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Egypt |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
1250-1517 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Egypt |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
1517-1882 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
History. |
| Source of term |
fast |
| Authority record control number |
(OCoLC)fst01411628 |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Table of contents only |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466245-t.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466245-t.html</a> |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Publisher description |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466245-d.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466245-d.html</a> |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Contributor biographical information |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466245-b.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1507/2014466245-b.html</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |