Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.
Ross E. Dunn is Professor of History at San Diego State University.
384 pp.5.5 x 8.25Illus: 15 b/w photographs, 12 maps
9780520272927$34.95|£30.00Paper
Jun 2012