Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-century Traveler from Baghdad to the Volga River: A Tenth-Century Traveler from Baghad to the Volga River

by Richard Frye (Editor), Richard Frye (Translator)

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  Illustrated
  2005

  $28.96

  An English translation of the risala, letters by the 10th-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers. He journeyed from Baghdad to Bukhara in Central Asia and then continued across the desert to the town of Bulghar, near present Kazan. He describes the tribes he meets on his way and gives an account of their customs.