Ancient Accounts of India and China
Ancient Accounts of India and China

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Publisher: Asian Educational Services

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9788120610217

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Who Went To These Parts In The 9Th Century. Translated From The Arabic By Eusebius Renaudot; With Notes And Illustrations And Inquiries.

Accounts of China and India
Accounts of China and India

Author: Abū Zayd Ḥasan ibn Yazīd Sīrāfī

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1479830593

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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. An English-only edition.

Ancient Accounts of India and China
Ancient Accounts of India and China

Author: Abu Zayd Hasan Ibn Yazid Sirafi

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-07

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9781333882013

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Excerpt from Ancient Accounts of India and China: By Two Mohammedan Travellers, Who Went to Those Parts in the 9th Century Had promifed, concerning atary and mi, which he was to have extracted from was to have been like his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.