The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms [electronic resource]
Richard Fidler2022
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A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest
the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed
with travel, knowledge and adventure.
When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab
diplomat who travelled all the way from Baghdad to the cold riverlands of
modern-day Russia - he was struck by how modern his voice was, like that of a
twenty-first century time-traveller dropped into a medieval wilderness. On
further investigation, Fidler discovered this was just one of countless reports
from Arab and Persian travellers of their adventures in medieval China, India,
Africa and Byzantium. Put together, he saw these stories formed a crazy quilt
picture of a lost world.
The Book of Roads & Kingdoms is the story of the medieval wanderers who
travelled out to the edges of the known world during Islam's fabled Golden Age;
an era when the caliphs of Baghdad presided over a dominion g...
Main title:
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms [electronic resource] / Richard Fidler
Author:
Richard Fidler, Author
Imprint:
Australia : ABC Books, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (448.0 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781460715277
Language:
English
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BRN:
437436
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