| Description |
xxxiii, 119 pages : map ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Library of Arabic literature |
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Library of Arabic literature.
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| Note |
Translated from the Arabic. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 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."--Publisher description. |
| Subject |
China -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
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India -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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| Genre/Form |
Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01919983
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Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
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Travel writing.
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| Added Author |
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961- translator.
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Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi, writer of foreword.
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| Added Title |
Silsilat al-tawārīkh. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sīrāfī, Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd, active 10th century author. Accounts of China and India. New York : New York University Press, 2017 9781479862054 (DLC) 2016042538 |
| ISBN |
9781479830596 paperback alkaline paper |
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1479830593 paperback alkaline paper |
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9781479862054 (e-book) |
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