Leo Africanus
I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages. Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and t…
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- ISBN: 978-1-56131-022-7
- EAN: 9781561310227
- Produktnummer: 20615010
- Verlag: New Amsterdam Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 370 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm 493 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 493
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