Accounts of China and India
The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the far eastern shores of China and Korea. Traveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscape-from Chinese society to Hindu religious practices-as well as a colorful range of natural wilderness-from flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan ge…
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Weitere Autoren: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4798-1442-8
- EAN: 9781479814428
- Produktnummer: 21453873
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'837 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 55
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