Trickster Travels
A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds
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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