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The Other Exile
Abdul Rahman Azzam
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Description for The Other Exile
Hardcover. A tale of a real-life Robinson Crusoe and his total retreat from human society. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1MTASH; 3JB; BGH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernão Lopes, a member of his country's minor nobility, travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam, married a Muslim, fought his former countrymen, and was eventually captured - his nose and hands publicly cut off for treachery. Eventually sailing for home, he jumped ship at St. Helena, becoming the island's first inhabitant, with only a black cockerel for company. News of Lopes reached the King of Portugal. Picked up by a ship sent especially ... Read more
The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernão Lopes, a member of his country's minor nobility, travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam, married a Muslim, fought his former countrymen, and was eventually captured - his nose and hands publicly cut off for treachery. Eventually sailing for home, he jumped ship at St. Helena, becoming the island's first inhabitant, with only a black cockerel for company. News of Lopes reached the King of Portugal. Picked up by a ship sent especially ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Icon Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785781834
SKU
V9781785781834
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Ref
99-10
About Abdul Rahman Azzam
Abdul Rahman Azzam has a BA and PhD in History from Oxford University. He is the author of Rumi and the Kingdom of Joy (2000) and the bestselling Saladin (published in English in 2007 by Longman), which was selected in Jordan as one of the top one hundred books on Islam.
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