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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Book of Roads and Kingdomsdi Richard Fidler
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As I've said many times, I do love a good popular history book. This was good but not great (I'm obviously feeling a bit fussy these days). There was a heap in this book and the paragraphs read well but for some reason the sections just didn't gel as well. This is actually the first book I've read by Richard Fidler and that may be the issue here. I've heard him talked up so much I was expecting something astounding, something that in truth few books could achieve. I'm still planning on reading Saga Land when I get the chance. This was purchased as a gift for my father so it'll be passed on. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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People obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan - a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled all the way from Baghdad to the cold riverlands of modern-day Russia - he was struck by how modern his voice was, like that of a twenty-first century time-traveller dropped into a medieval wilderness. On further investigation, Fidler discovered this was just one of countless reports from Arab and Persian travellers of their adventures in medieval China, India, Africa and Byzantium. Put together, he saw these stories formed a crazy quilt picture of a lost world. The Book of Roads & Kingdoms is the story of the medieval wanderers who travelled out to the edges of the known world during Islam's fabled Golden Age; an era when the caliphs of Baghdad presided over a dominion greater than the Roman Empire at its peak, stretching from North Africa to India. Imperial Baghdad, founded as the 'City of Peace', quickly became the biggest and richest metropolis in the world. Standing atop one of the city's four gates, its founder proclaimed: Here is the Tigris River, and nothing stands between it and China. In a flourishing culture of science, literature and philosophy, the citizens of Baghdad were fascinated by the world and everything in it. Inspired by their Prophet's commandment to seek knowledge all over the world, these traders, diplomats, soldiers and scientists left behind the cosmopolitan pleasures of Baghdad to venture by camel, horse and boat into the unknown. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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