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020			_a9781479803507
040			_aPMNP _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
650		0	_91606 _aGeography
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999			_c3495 _d3495