“A compelling account which is, among other things, the earliest first-hand description of travel from the Muslim world.”—Times Literary SupplementMission to the Volga is the earliest surviving instan
A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing-in an important new translation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far no
Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation o
