Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga: 17 (Library of Arabic Literature)

by Ahmad Ibn Fadlan (Translator), James E. Montgomery (Translator), Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Translator), Abu Zayd al-Sirafi (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2014

  $50.52

  Combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. This book offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, tattoos, and a striking account of a ship funeral.