SC - a person is chosen

Helen helen at directlink.net
Sat Aug 7 11:53:50 PDT 1999


Dear Ana,
    Please don't be offended at some people's way of expressing themselves.  I am
sure that Cariadoc did not mean to be as brisk as he sounded.

Helen

Ana L. Valdés wrote:

> As usual, sire Cariadoc impress me showing my lacking of scientific accuracy :)
> I didn know that Ibn Batuttas trip to the North was a fake.
> I am going to try other sources, included the ones you suggested.
> Thank you for your kind help
> Ana
>
> david friedman wrote:
>
> > At 11:39 AM +0200 8/5/99, Ana L. Valdés wrote:
> >
> > >I am going to read my Ibn-Batuta to see his descriptions of the Northern
> > >world.
> >
> > While the assumption that Ibn Battuta went everywhere is a good first
> > approximation, I'm afraid he didn't make it north of al-Andalus except for
> > a trip through what is now Southern Russia en route to India. That section
> > contains, as I remember (I'm en route to Pennsic and my copy of the _Rehla_
> > isn't), a brief trip North, but one that is widely suspected to be fake.
> >
> > For a more extensive description of the North, still much farther east than
> > you want, you might try Ibn Fadlan. The most accessible version is created
> > by taking Michael Crighton's _Eaters of the Dead_ and removing all the
> > parts that Crighton added. I'm not sure I spelled his name right.
> >
> > David/Cariadoc
> > http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
> >
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