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Irene M.
Franck &
David M. Brownstone, adapted by Rachel Kranz.
Across Africa and
Arabia.
New York: Facts on File, 1991
(Adapted
from To the Ends of the Earth, 1984).
Trade and Travel Routes series.
ISBN
0816018782.
Hardback,
perfect bound.
192x241mm.
xii,107pp inc. 36 monochrome illustrations.
English.
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Human
life began
in the area of Africa and Arabia, and the story of the routes that
developed
across these lands is as old as humankind. The Nile River was traveled
by the earliest peoples, by Egyptian pharaohs, and then by Greek kings
and Roman emperors. Its history is part of the history of those great
cultures.
The Incense Road carried not only gold and incense but culture and
religion
as well. The kings who are said to have brought gifts to the Christ
child
traveled this road, and the prophet Mohammed is believed to have spent
his youth as a trader on the route. Over the Sahara routes travelers
crossed
an immense desert bringing salt to trade for gold or slaves to sell to
merchants form distant lands. Along these routes, places such as
Timbuktu
became renowned in myth as golden cities, reachable only through
scorching
journeys over bone-strewn paths. Many travelers encountered the heat
and
bones but never found the gold.
Across
Africa
and Arabia, a volume in Facts on File's Trade and Travel Routes
series, describes in colourful detail the evolution of some of the
world's
most important trade and travel routes. To follow the development of
these
routes is to glimpse not only the events of the times but also the
conditions
faced by those who traveled these paths.The text is enhanced throughout
by the inclusion of some 50 maps and illustrations, suggestions for
further
reading, and a thorough index.
Across
Africa
and Arabia offers a new and stimulating approach to the study of
world
history, as well as sending the reader on a fascinating journey through
space and time.
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