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The City Of Light

The City Of Light

D'Ancona, Jacob

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 0806524634
ISBN13: 9780806524634
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Published: Mar 1 2003
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.87
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.74 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China at the coastal metropolis of Zaitun, the City of Light (now known as Quanzhou), four years before Marco Polo arrived at Xanadu in 1275. Nothing was known of this epochal journey until 1990, when David Selbourne was shown d'Ancona's account of his travels, a remarkable manuscript that had been hidden from public view for more than seven centuries. Eventually translated and edited by Selbourne and published in Great Britain in October 1997 as The City of Light, the account was praised as providing an unparalleled insight into life in the medieval world.

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