TY - BOOK TI - Two Arabic Travel Books: : Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga SN - 9781479803507 U1 - 915.4 PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - NYU Press KW - Geography N2 - 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 ER -