Accounts of China and India - (Library of Arabic Literature) by Abū & Zayd Al-Sī & rā & fī (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>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. </b> <p/>An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, <i>Accounts of China and India</i> 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. <p/>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. <p/>An English-only edition.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>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"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (Author) </b><br> <b>Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī </b>was a seafarer who moved from the Persian port-city of Siraf to Basra in 303/915-916. He wrote the second half of <i>Accounts of China and India</i>, supplementing an earlier section written by an unknown mariner and merchant fifty years earlier. <p/><b>Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Translator) </b><br> <b>Tim Mackintosh-Smith</b> is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, which earned him a spot among <i>Newsweek</i>'s top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen. <p/>
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