Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520262379)

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.

Author: Morris Rossabi
ISBN-10: 0520262379
ISBN-13: 9780520262379
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2010
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d