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Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Natalie Zemon Davis
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Description for Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
Paperback. Offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and is a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1H; BGH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 376.
Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance. Trickster Travels offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and is a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.
Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance. Trickster Travels offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and is a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
379g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571234790
SKU
V9780571234790
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About Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. Her books include The Return of Martin Guerre which was made into two hugely successful movies and which pioneered a new kind of historical writing. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Reviews for Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
"'Fascinating... No review can do justice to the intelligence and richness of Davis's book.' Allan Massie, Telegraph"