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020 _a9781479803507
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_beng
_cKutubkhanah Diraja
082 _a915.4
245 _aTwo Arabic Travel Books:
_bAccounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga /
_cAbū Zayd al-Sīrāfī and Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān, translated and edited by Tim Mackintosh‑Smith & James E. Montgomery
260 _aNew York
_bNYU Press
_c2014
300 _a312p.
520 _aBilingual 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
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_aGeography
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_cBK
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