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Pages: 292
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-26 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report o
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Ross E. Dunn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.
The Book of Marvels and Travels
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: John Mandeville
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Man
Mission to the Volga
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-04 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic. A pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we
The Book of Contemplation
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Usama ibn Munqidh
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-03 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experie