![]() | Accounts of China and India The 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. Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī (Author) Abū Zayd al-Sīrāfī was a seafarer who moved from the Persian port-city of Siraf to Basra in 303/915-916. He wrote the second half of Accounts of China and India , supplementing an earlier section written by an unknown mariner and merchant fifty years earlier. Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Translator) Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Baṭṭūṭah, which earned him a spot among Newsweek 's top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen. |
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