A Physician on the Nile Hugh Latham Formally daring and subversively inventive

Formally daring and subversively inventive with language

In physics

Recasting late nineteenth-century Chicago in terms of the struggle over order

sweeping economic transformation

A Physician on the Nile Hugh Latham Formally daring and subversively inventiveFlora, fauna, and famine in thirteenth century Egypt A 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 the polymath and physician 'Abd al Latif al Baghdadi, and intended for the Abbasid caliph al Nasir, the first part of the book offers detailed descriptions of Egypt's geography, plants, animals, and local