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| Copyright Acknowledgements | |
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| Foreword | |
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| African and Asian Travel Texts in the Light of Europe: an Introduction by Tabish Khair | |
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| Note on the Process of Editing | |
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| Pilgrimages | |
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| Three Chinese Scholars go "West" to India (fifth-seventh century) | |
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| The Travels of a Japanese Monk (c. 838) | |
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| The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon (c. 990) | |
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| The Haj and Other Journeys of ibn Jubayr (b. 1145) | |
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| The Pilgrimages of Lady Nijo (b. 1271) | |
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| Studies | |
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| Al-Buruni's Defence of Hindu India (1030 AD) | |
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| The Horizons of al-Idrisi in the Eleventh Century | |
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| Two Chinese Accounts of the Early Mongols (1221 and 1237) | |
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| A Chinese Account of the Lost City of Angkor (1297) | |
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| Navigating with ibn Majid (floreat 1460) | |
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| Piri Reis: The Voyages of a "Corsair" (c. 1526) | |
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| The Ambivalence of Leo Africanus (1526) | |
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| Autobiographies, Diaries & Memoirs | |
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| The Memoirs of a Syrian Prince-Polymath (b. 1273) | |
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| The Accidental Travels of a Korean Official (1488) | |
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| The Travel Memoirs of Babur (b. 1482) | |
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| The European Diaries of Uruch Beg (b. 1560) | |
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| The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake (1623) | |
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| Equiano's Voyage to Slavery and Freedom (1789) | |
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| Dean Mahomed Writes from the Centre (c. 1793) | |
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| African Muslim Slave Narratives of the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Diary of Queen Emma of Hawaii (b. 1836) | |
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| The Shah of Iran in European Corridors (1873) | |
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| An African-Arab Princess in Europe (1881) | |
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| Travel Accounts | |
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| A Merchant of Baghdad Reports on a Viking Funeral (AD 922) | |
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| Al-Abdari, the Disgruntled Traveller (c. 1290) | |
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| Ibn Battuta, World Traveller (b. 1304) | |
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| An Arab Cleric in South America (1668-83) | |
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| The Poetry of Basho's Road (1689) | |
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| Mirza I'tesamuddin's Wonders of Vilayet (1765) | |
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| An Indian Aristocrat in Africa and Europe (1803) | |
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| Al-Amraoui: Moroccan Ambassador to Europe (1860) | |
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| Blyden: A Pan-Africanist's Voyage to Palestine (1873) | |
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| Malabari: A Love-Hate Affair with the British (1890) | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |