TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khair,Tabish
TI  - Other routes: 1500 years of African and Asian travel writing 
SN  - 1904955118 (hbk.) :
U1  - 910.408995 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Signal
KW  - Voyages and travels
KW  - Travelers' writings
KW  - Africans
KW  - Travel
KW  - Asians
N1  - Includes index; African and Asian travel texts in the light of Europe : an introduction; Tabish Khair --; Pilgrimages --; Three Chinese scholars go "west" to India (fifth-seventh century) --; The travels of a Japanese Monk (c. 838) --; The pillow book of Sei Shonagon (c. 990) --; The Haj and other journeys of ibn Jubayr (b. 1145) --; The pilgrimages of lady Nijo (b. 1271) --; Studies --; Al-Buruni's defence of Hindu India (1030 A.D.) --; The horizons of al-Idrisi in the eleventh century --; Two Chinese accounts of the early Mongols (1221 and 1237) --; A Chinese account of the lost City of Angkor (1297) --; Navigating with ibn Majid (floreat 1460) --; Piri Reis : the voyages of a "Corsair" (c. 1526) --; The ambivalence of Leo Africanus (1526) --; Autobiographies, diaries & memoirs --; The memoirs of a Syrian Prince-polymath (b. 1273) --; The accidental travels of a Korean official (1488) --; The travel memoirs of Babur (b. 1482) --; The European diaries of Uruch Beg (b. 1560) --; The travel diaries of Xu Xiake (1623) --; Equiano's voyage to slavery and freedom (1789) --; Dean Mahomed writes from the centre (c. 1793) --; African Muslim slave narratives of the nineteenth century --; The diary of Queen Emma of Hawaii (b. 1836) --; The Shah of Iran in European corridors (1873) --; An African-Arab princess in Europe (1881) --; Travel accounts --; A merchant of Baghdad reports on a Viking funeral (A.D. 922) --; Al-Abdari, the disgruntled traveller (c. 1290) --; Ibn Battuta, world traveller (b. 1304) --; An Arab Cleric in South America (1668-83) --; The poetry of Basho's road (1689) --; Mirza I'tesamuddin's wonders of Vilayet (1765) --; An Indian Aristocrat in Africa and Europe (1803) --; Al-Amraoui : Moroccan Ambassador to Europe (1860) --; Blyden : a pan-Africanist's voyage to Palestine (1873) --; Malabari : a love-hate affair with the British (1890)
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