A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī

A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī with Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Translator)

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative medium-paced
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Flora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth-century EgyptA Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Written by t...

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