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Accounts of China and India (Library of Arabic Literature) - Softcover

Buch 22 von 57: Library of Arabic Literature

Al-Sirafi, Abu Zayd

 
9781479830596: Accounts of China and India (Library of Arabic Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1479830593 ISBN 13: 9781479830596
Verlag: New York University, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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 gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a kaleidoscope of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information. Here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men-a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella.
An English-only edition.

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Über die Autorin bzw. 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 Ba??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.

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Verlag
New York University
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1479830593
ISBN 13 
9781479830596
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
124
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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4831 GR
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