Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West / Edition 1

Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West / Edition 1

by Morris Rossabi
ISBN-10:
0520262379
ISBN-13:
9780520262379
Pub. Date:
02/10/2010
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN-10:
0520262379
ISBN-13:
9780520262379
Pub. Date:
02/10/2010
Publisher:
University of California Press
Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West / Edition 1

Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West / Edition 1

by Morris Rossabi
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Overview

Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing) to Jerusalem. Upon reaching Baghdad—the first traveler to arrive from China—Sauma learned that his pilgrimage could not be fulfilled because of Islamic control of the Holy Land. In Voyager from Xanadu, Morris Rossabi traces Sauma’s trans-Eurasian travels against the turbulent era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades. His indispensable book provides a unique first-hand Asian perspective on Europe and illuminates a crucial period in the early history of global, diplomatic, and commercial networking.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520262379
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 02/10/2010
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 248
Sales rank: 881,254
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Morris Rossabi is Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York, and Adjunct Professor of Chinese and Mongolian History at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, including Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times (UC Press).
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