Two Arabic Travel Books
Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga
Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to China and Korea. The early centuries of the Abbasid era witnessed a substantial network of maritime trade-the real-life background to the Sindbad tales. In this account, we first travel east to discover a vivid human landscape, including descriptions of Chinese society and government, Hindu religious practices, and natural life from flying fish to T…
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Weitere Autoren: Fa¿lan, A¿mad ibn
- ISBN: 978-1-4798-0028-5
- EAN: 9781479800285
- Produktnummer: 21432817
- Verlag: Bonnier Publishing Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'783 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 17
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