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Trickster Travels

A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Natalie Zemon Davis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:10th Jan '08

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From acclaimed historian and novelist Natalie Zemon Davis, Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds is an extraordinary story of Leo Africanus, a most enigmatic man.

Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance.Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance. Trickster Travels offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and is a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.

"'Fascinating... No review can do justice to the intelligence and richness of Davis's book.' Allan Massie, Telegraph"

ISBN: 9780571234790

Dimensions: 197mm x 127mm x 26mm

Weight: 365g

464 pages

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