Chapter 12. Cairo, City of Lights

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. PREFACE ix
5. Chronology And Maps xiii
6. Chapter 1. Evagari et Discurrere per Mundum . . . 1
7. Chapter 2. All Roads Lead to Venice 16
8. Chapter 3. Venice in Splendid Dress 26
9. Chapter 4. Five Weeks in a Galley 47
10. Chapter 5. The Holy Lond of Promyssion 68
11. Chapter 6. Jerusalem and the Holy Places 78
12. Chapter 7. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher 91
13. Chapter 8. Pilgrimages and Excursions Round and About Jerusalem 102
14. Chapter 9. Saracens in the Towns, Arabs in the Desert, and Jews Here and There 111
15. Chapter 10. Desert Time, Desert Space 127
16. Chapter 11. Sinai and Its Speaking Stones 146
17. Chapter 12. Cairo, City of Lights 157
18. Chapter 13. Diamonds of the Sands, or Pharaoh’s Granaries 173
19. Chapter 14. The Virgin’s Garden, the Hermits’ Desert, and Egyptian Dreams 179
20. Chapter 15. Alexandria, Sentry of the East 186
21. Chapter 16. Happy He Who, Like Ulysses . . . 198
22. Chapter 17. By Way of an Ending 211
23. Appendix. Pilgrims’ Profiles 221
24. Notes 231
25. Bibliography 271
26. Index 283