Lost Maps of the Caliphs: Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo
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About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities, was unknown to modern scholars until a remarkable manuscript copy surfaced in 2000. Lost Maps of the Caliphs...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:022654088X
ISBN13:9780226540887
Release Date:December 2018
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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