Accounts of China and India (Library of Arabic Literature) [Idioma Inglés]: 55 - Softcover

Al-Sirafi, Abu Zayd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479830593 ISBN 13: 9781479830596

Verlag: NYU Press, 2017

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Críticas:

These accounts are full of fascination and wonder [and] continue the contribution this excellent series is making towards integrating classics of Arabic into the global canon. * Times Literary Supplement *

Reseña del editor:

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.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1479830593
• ISBN 13: 9781479830596
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158