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G. R. Tibbetts.
Arab Navigation in the Indian Ocean before the Coming of the Portuguese, being a translation of Kitab al-Fawa'id fi usul al-bahr wa'l-qawa'id of Ahmad b. Majid al-Najdi, together with an introduction on the history of Arab navigation, notes on the navigational techniques and on the topography of the Indian Ocean, and a glossary of navigational terms.
London: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1971.
Oriental Translation Fund, New Series Vol. XLII.
SBN 718909003.
Hardback, stitch bound; no dustjacket.
142x222x40mm.
xxvi,614pp inc. 9 monochrome text figures.
English.
Good condition: some light foxing to the page edges.This item £45.00
966g.Contents: The navigators & their works; Translation of Ahmad ibn Majid, Kitab al-Fawa; Navigational theory; Topography of the navigational texts; Appendices.
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