Accounts of China and India
$39.23
- Paperback
124 pages
- Release Date
3 April 2017
Summary
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 landsca…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781479830596 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1479830593 |
| Author: | Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Imprint: | New York University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 124 |
| Release Date: | 3 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Library of Arabic Literature |
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Critics Review
“These accounts are full of fascination and wonder [and] continue the contribution this excellent series is making towards integrating classics of Arabic into the global canon.” (Times Literary Supplement)
About The Author
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (Author) Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī 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 Baṭṭūṭah, 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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