Penguin Classics Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North, (Paperback)

from antiquary

The leading item in this collection of "Arab Travellers in the Far North" is Ibn Fadlan's well-known account of his journey in about 922 AD from Baghdad through various west and central Asian states notably the Samanid Iranian-culture empire and the northward to the Bulghar people, vassals of the...

from le.vert.galant

Ibn Fadlan's manuscript gives an unusually vivid account of a journey from Baghdad to present-day Kazan on the Volga River in 922. The other narratives collected in this book are much flatter but still interesting. The mix of facts and speculation are interesting and give a picture of how the wor...

from Joe73

Very interesting and mildly entertaining. But I can't help but wonder how much of this was made up by some person in a dark basement in Europe a hundred years ago. Many of the accounts seem a little cartoonish, but then again maybe something got lost in translation.

from antiquary

The leading item in this collection of "Arab Travellers in the Far North" is Ibn Fadlan's well-known account of his journey in about 922 AD from Baghdad through various west and central Asian states notably the Samanid Iranian-culture empire and the northward to the Bulghar people, vassals of the...

from le.vert.galant

Ibn Fadlan's manuscript gives an unusually vivid account of a journey from Baghdad to present-day Kazan on the Volga River in 922. The other narratives collected in this book are much flatter but still interesting. The mix of facts and speculation are interesting and give a picture of how the wor...