Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel WritingTabish Khair ". . . brings new insights into the colonial relationship while challenging the unspoken temptation that this was a distinctly European period." —Simon Gikandi |
Contents
Foreword by Amitav Ghosh ix | 1 |
Note on the Process of Editing | 28 |
The Travels of a Japanese Monk c 838 | 42 |
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon c 990 | 49 |
The Pilgrimages of Lady Nijô b 1271 | 71 |
AlBurûnîs Defence of Hindu India 1030 AD | 78 |
The Horizons of alIdrisi in the Eleventh Century | 85 |
Two Chinese Accounts of the Early Mongols 1221 and 1237 | 102 |
Equianos Voyage to Slavery and Freedom 1789 | 191 |
Dean Mahomed Writes from the Centre c 1793 | 201 |
African Muslim Slave Narratives of the Nineteenth Century | 214 |
The Diary of Queen Emma of Hawaii b 1836 | 237 |
The Shah of Iran in European Corridors 1873 | 245 |
An AfricanArab Princess in Europe 1881 | 261 |
A Merchant of Baghdad Reports on a Viking Funeral AD 922 | 274 |
Ibn Battuta World Traveller b 1304 | 289 |
A Chinese Account of the Lost City of Angkor 1297 | 112 |
Navigating with ibn Majid floreat 1460 | 119 |
The Voyages of a Corsair c 1526 | 127 |
The Memoirs of a Syrian PrincePolymath b 1273 | 146 |
The Accidental Travels of a Korean Official 1488 | 155 |
The Travel Memoirs of Babur b 1482 | 162 |
The European Diaries of Uruch Beg b 1560 | 173 |
CONTENTS | 176 |
The Travel Diaries of Xu Xiake 1623 | 184 |
The Poetry of Bashos Road 1689 | 306 |
An Indian Aristocrat in Africa and Europe 1803 | 327 |
Moroccan Ambassador to Europe 1860 | 348 |
A LoveHate Affair with the British 1890 | 366 |
Notes | 383 |
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