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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the "Riches of the East."
By Gordon, Stewart
- ISBN
- 9781541415676
- Publisher
- Tantor
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Reviewed on October 1, 2018 | Audio
This audiobook from Gordon (Ctr. for South Asian Studies, Univ. of Michigan; A History of the World in Sixteen Shipwrecks) was originally published in print in 2008. This book employs original travel memoirs from eight monks, traders, and warriors between 500 and 1500 CE as they traveled and influenced thought. There exist certain themes throughout, for example, the desire of Buddhist, Muslim, and Jewish individuals to travel and learn about new and different cultures in order to enrich their own lives...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
