Two Arabic travel books /

Two Arabic travel books /

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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. In Mission to the Volga, we move nor...

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Other Authors: Kennedy, Philip F. (Editor), Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961- (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt, Translator), Montgomery, James E (James Edward), 1962- (Editor, Translator, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Toorawa, Shawkat M. (Editor), Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922, Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad, active 922, Sīrāfī, Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd, active 10th century, Sīrāfī, Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd, active 10th century
Format: Book
Language:English
Arabic
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series:Library of Arabic literature
Subjects:
Sīrāfī, al-Ḥasan al-, > 916 fl
800-900
Early works to 1800
Arabisch
Reiseliteratur
Travel
China > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
India > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
Volga River Region (Russia) > Description and travel > Early works to 1800
China
India
Indien
Russia (Federation) > Volga River Region
Wolga-Gebiet
Early works
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