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Titolo: Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness
Condizione: Nuovo
EAN: 9780140455076
ISBN: 9780140455076
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Formato: Tascabile
Data di pubblicazione: 01/12/2011
Lingua: inglese
Altezza: 198mm
Lunghezza: 129mm
Larghezza: 17mm
Peso: 224g
Autore: Ibn Fadlan
Traducción: Caroline Stone, Paul Lunde
Contribuyente: Caroline Stone (Translated by), Paul Lunde (Translated by)
Subtítulos: Arab Travellers in the Far North
ISBN-10: 0140455078
Description:

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation.

Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north.

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