Accounts of China and India / / Abu Zayd al-Sirafi
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| Autore: |
al-Sirafi Abu Zayd
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| Titolo: |
Accounts of China and India / / Abu Zayd al-Sirafi
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (109 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina: | 915.10418 |
| Soggetto topico: | India - Description and travel |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Description and travel Early works to 1800 |
| India Description and travel Early works to 1800 | |
| Altri autori: |
BeniteZvi Ben-Dor
Mackintosh-SmithTim
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| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Letter from the General Editor -- About this Paperback -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes to the Introduction -- Map -- Accounts of China and India: The First Book -- Accounts of China and India: The Second Book -- Notes -- Glossary of Names and Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute -- About the Translator -- The Library of Arabic Literature |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. 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. Traveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscape—from Chinese society to Hindu religious practices—as well as a colorful range of natural wilderness—from 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 men—a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Accounts of China and India |
| ISBN: | 1-4798-6205-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815005703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Library of Arabic literature.