Abu Zayd Al-Sirafi

Accounts of China and India

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Benite, Zvi Ben (Solist) / Mackintosh-Smith, Tim (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-4798-3059-6
EAN: 9781479830596
Produktnummer: 21425686
Verlag: New York Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 124 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D1.0 cm 181 g
Reihenbandnummer: 55
Gewicht: 181

Über den Autor

Abu Zayd al-Sirafi (Author) Abu Zayd al-Sirafi was a seafarer who moved from the Persian port-city of Siraf to Basra in 303/915-916. He wrote the second half of Accounts of China and India, supplementing an earlier section written by an unknown mariner and merchant fifty years earlier.Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Translator) Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Bä¿u¿ah, which earned him a spot among Newsweek's top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen.