Ottoman Explorations of the Nile - Evliya Celebi's Map of the Nile and "The Nile Journeys" in the "Book of Travels"

The most ambitious effort to explore and map out the Nile, before the time of Napoleon, was undertaken by the Ottomans - as recorded in two monumental documents. The book gives full weight to both documents, keeping their own integrity and highlighting the relation between them through ample cross-references.