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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."
- Henry Bolingbroke
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ZIN Product Number: 10439150
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 360 pages
Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
ISBN: 1561310220
Release Date: Jan 3, 2003
| |  | | | In Brief
This fictional autobiography is based on the writings of the Arab geographer and traveler Hasan al-Wazzan, who settled in Italy and was baptized Leoby Pope Leo X. The novel "chronicles in 40 chapters the first 40 years of {his} life: . . . as a little child in Granada, a youth in Fez, a man in Timbuktu, a lover in Cairo, an emissary in Constantinople and a scholar in Rome." (NY Times Book Rev) Originally published in France in 1986.
| | | | From The Publisher
'Leo Africanus' is a beautiful book of tales about people who are forced to accept choices made for them by someone else. . . It relates, poetically at times and often imaginatively, the story of those who did not make it to the New World. —'New York Times Book Review'
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
Exiled with other Jews and Muslims by the Spanish conquest of Granada, Leo's wanderings over North Africa and Asia gain him a position as papal geographer
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Absolutely fascinating—an evocation of a lost world. Leo's travels among Muslims, Christians, and Jews in his time shed startling light on our present dilemmas.
—(Thomas Fleming) —Thomas Fleming
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Leo,, Africanus,, ca. 1492-ca. 1550, Fiction, Africa, Fiction - Historical, Historical - General, Fiction, Discovery and exploration, Africa, Explorers
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