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full color illustrated trade paperback. fine cond. spine uncreased. binding square & tight. covers clean. tiny scratch in top edge. clean inside & out. first paperback edition so stated. first printing (nap). 358p. granada. fez. cairo. rome. historical novel. fiction. world literature. medieval history. islam. history of the mediterranean. christianity. ~"I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh~master, I, Jean~Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the Fassi, the Zayyati, but I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road, my country is the caravan, my life the most unexpected of voyages." ~ "Absolutely fascinating~an evocation of a lost world. Leo's travels among Moslems, Christians, and Jews in his time shed startling light on our present dilemmas." ~THOMAS FLEMING ~ "Leo Africanus is a beautiful book of tales about people who are always forced to accept choices made for them by someone else . It relates, poetically at times and often imaginatively, the story of those who did not make it to the New World." ~NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ~ "What is utterly fascinating is the insight Amin Maalouf gives us into the life of ordinary people five hundred years ago, in Moorish Granada, in Arab Fez, in cosmopolitan Cairo, in the Turkey of the Sublime Porte, in Rome at the time when Raphael and Michelangelo were painting." ~BBC WORLD SERVICE. Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese writer, was editor~in~chief of Jeune Afrique. He is the author of The Crusades through Arab Eyes and several novels. Seller Inventory # 7111603
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Title: LEO AFRICANUS. Translated By Peter Sluglett.
Publisher: Chicago IL. 1992.New Amsterdam Books
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
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