Trickster Travels; A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
by Davis, Natalie Zemon (Biography of Leo Africanus.)
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- ISBN 10
- 0809094347
- ISBN 13
- 9780809094349
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About This Item
New York: Hill and Wang 978-0-8090-9434-9 [978-0-8090-9434-9] 2006. (Hardcover) 435pp. Very good plus in fine dust jacket. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. The spine is lightly edgeworn at the top and bottom. "The man whom historians know as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa, was born al-Hasan al-Wazzan to a Muslim family that in 1492 moved from Granada to Morocco. In this fascinating new book, the distinguished historian Natalie Zemon Davis offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial, and often contradictory traces that this celebrated figure left behind him". Biography of Leo Africanus. Book about Al-Hasan Al-Wazzan. Time Period 16th Century. Locale: Morocco. (History--Europe, Geography, History--Europe, Islam).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153877
- Title
- Trickster Travels; A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
- Author
- Davis, Natalie Zemon (Biography of Leo Africanus.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0809094347
- ISBN 13
- 9780809094349
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang 978-0-8090-9434-9
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2006-03
- Keywords
- History--Europe, Geography, History--Europe, Islam
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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