Accounts of China and India: Accounts Of China And India And Mission To The Volga (Library of Arabic Literature #55)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
124 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781479814428
Related ISBNs:
9781479830596
Publisher:
NYU Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
New York University
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Foreword by:
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Translator:
Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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