Description
| Product ID: | 9780140455076 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness |
| Subtitle: | Arab Travellers in the Far North |
| Authors: | Author: Ibn Fadlan, Paul Lunde, Caroline Stone |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Geographical discovery and exploration, Geographical discovery & exploration, Classic travel writing, Classic travel writing, Europe, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. This title offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north. In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-12-01 |