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Secondhand book for saleIrene M. Franck & David M. Brownstone, adapted by Rachel Kranz.
Across Africa and Arabia.
Published New York: Facts on File, 1991 (Adapted from To the Ends of the Earth, 1984).
Series: Trade and Travel Routes.
ISBN 0816018782.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Size: 192x241mm.
Page count: xii,107pp inc. 36 monochrome illustrations.
Main language: English.
Unused bargain: these copies show a bit wear after long-term storage, noticeable but not too severe.
This item £6.00
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Human life began in the area of Africa and Arabia, and the story of the routes that developed across these lands is as old as humankind. The Nile River was traveled by the earliest peoples, by Egyptian pharaohs, and then by Greek kings and Roman emperors. Its history is part of the history of those great cultures. The Incense Road carried not only gold and incense but culture and religion as well. The kings who are said to have brought gifts to the Christ child traveled this road, and the prophet Mohammed is believed to have spent his youth as a trader on the route. Over the Saharan routes travelers crossed an immense desert bringing salt to trade for gold or slaves to sell to merchants from distant lands. Along these routes, places such as Timbuktu became renowned in myth as golden cities, reachable only through scorching journeys over bone-strewn paths. Many travelers encountered the heat and bones but never found the gold.
Across Africa and Arabia, a volume in Facts on File’s Trade and Travel Routes series, describes in colourful detail the evolution of some of the world’s most important trade and travel routes. To follow the development of these routes is to glimpse not only the events of the times but also the conditions faced by those who traveled these paths.The text is enhanced throughout by the inclusion of some 50 maps and illustrations, suggestions for further reading, and a thorough index.
Across Africa and Arabia offers a new and stimulating approach to the study of world history, as well as sending the reader on a fascinating journey through space and time.
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