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Availability:In StockContributor:Johannes Leo Africanus, Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Translator), Richard J. Oosterhoff (Translator)Publish date:2024-07-09Pages:560
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780241543931ISBN-10:241543932UPC:9780241543931Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical Geography, AfricaBook Topic:North, WestSize:7.79 x 5.13 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCG8KB6WFJ
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa A Penguin Classic In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus....
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780241543931ISBN-10:241543932UPC:9780241543931Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical Geography, AfricaBook Topic:North, WestSize:7.79 x 5.13 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCG8KB6WFJ
Leo Africanus was Born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan in Granada and raised in Fez. Johannes Leo Africanus was a sixteenth-century diplomat and scholar who, in the court of Pope Leo X, produced the first guide to the geography and culture of North Africa, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa. Anthony Ossa-Richardson (translator) is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at University College...
Publisher: Penguin Group
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