Accounts of China and India
Abu Zayd al-Sirafi
Tim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)
Paperback, 124 pages
English-only edition
9781479830596
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The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales.Ā
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An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the far eastern shores of China and Korea.Ā
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Traveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscapeāfrom Chinese society to Hindu religious practicesāas well as a colorful range of natural wildernessāfrom flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a kaleidoscope of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information. Here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy menāa marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella.
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Accounts of China and India
Abu Zayd al-Sirafi
Tim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)
Paperback, 124 pages
English-only edition
9781479830596
Ā
The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales.Ā
Ā
An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the far eastern shores of China and Korea.Ā
Ā
Traveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscapeāfrom Chinese society to Hindu religious practicesāas well as a colorful range of natural wildernessāfrom flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a kaleidoscope of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information. Here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy menāa marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella.
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Abu Zayd al-Sirafi
Tim Mackintosh-Smith (translation)
Paperback, 124 pages
English-only edition
9781479830596
Ā
The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales.Ā
Ā
An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the far eastern shores of China and Korea.Ā
Ā
Traveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscapeāfrom Chinese society to Hindu religious practicesāas well as a colorful range of natural wildernessāfrom flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a kaleidoscope of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information. Here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy menāa marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella.
