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Description for Leo Africanus
Paperback. An imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description of Africa. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 216 x 27. Weight in Grams: 484.
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the ... Read more
"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
New Amsterdam Books United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781561310227
SKU
V9781561310227
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Amin Maalouf
Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese writer, was editor-in-chief of Jeune Afrique. He is the author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes and several novels.
Reviews for Leo Africanus
Leo Africanus is a beautiful book of tales about people who are forced to accept choices made for them by someone else...It relates, poetically at times and often imaginatively, the story of those who did not make it to the New World.
The New York Times
Utterly fascinating.
BBC World Service
Absoutely facinating—an evocation of a ... Read more
The New York Times
Utterly fascinating.
BBC World Service
Absoutely facinating—an evocation of a ... Read more