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[Ana L. Valdés]

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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