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Cover: Soft
Condition: New
Barcode: 9780349106007
Trade code: 50019
ISBN: 9780349106007
Category: Fiction All Books

Author: Amin Maalouf

Amin Maalouf | Leo the African

Price 29.90 лв.
  • Copyright: © Amin Maalouf 1986
    Translation copyright: © Peter Sluglett 1988

    Thus wrote Leo Africanus, in his fortieth year, in this imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan, who was born in Granada in 1488. His family fled the Inquisition and took him to the city of Fez, in North Africa. Hasan became an itinerant merchant, and made many journeys to the East, journeys rich in adventure and observation. He was captured by a Sicilian pirate and taken back to Rome as a gift to Pope Leo X, who baptized him Johannes Leo. While in Rome, he wrote the first trilingual dictionary (Latin, Arabic and Hebrew), as well as his celebrated
     
    Description of Africa, for which he is still remembered as Leo Africanus.

    • Language: English
    • Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
    • Pages: 360
    • Cover: softcover
    • First published: 1988
    • This edition published: 1994