Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga (Al-Sīrāfī Abū Zayd)(Pevná vazba)

Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga (Al-Sīrāfī Abū Zayd)(Pevná vazba)

Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga (Al-Sīrāfī Abū Zayd)(Pevná vazba)

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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 Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a jigsaw picture 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

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