Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga /
Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī and Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān, translated and edited by Tim Mackintosh‑Smith & James E. Montgomery
- New York NYU Press 2014
- 312p.
Bilingual edition pairing two seminal Arabic travel narratives: one describing voyages in the Indian Ocean during the Abbasid era, and another chronicling a diplomatic mission to the Volga River and encounters with Viking Rus. Rich with early global connectivity, ethnographic detail, and maritime culture
9781479803507
Geography
915.4
Bilingual edition pairing two seminal Arabic travel narratives: one describing voyages in the Indian Ocean during the Abbasid era, and another chronicling a diplomatic mission to the Volga River and encounters with Viking Rus. Rich with early global connectivity, ethnographic detail, and maritime culture
9781479803507
Geography
915.4