{"product_id":"9781479830596","title":"Accounts of China and India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, \u003cb\u003eAccounts of China and India\u003c\/b\u003e is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse territory, from the Somali headlands of Africa to the far eastern shores of China and Korea. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling eastward, we discover a vivid human landscape—from Chinese society to Hindu religious practices—as well as a colorful range of natural wilderness—from flying fish to Tibetan musk-deer and Sri Lankan gems. The juxtaposed accounts create a kaleidoscope of a world not unlike our own, a world on the road to globalization. In its ports, we find a priceless cargo of information. Here are the first foreign descriptions of tea and porcelain, a panorama of unusual social practices, cannibal islands, and Indian holy men—a marvelous, mundane world, contained in the compass of a novella.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50041246679280,"sku":"9781479830596","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781479830596","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}