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Also, please add this Audible edition:
* Title: The Book of Roads and Kingdoms
* Author: Richard Fidler
* Narrator: Richard Fidler
* ASIN: B0BB825C2Q
* Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
* Publication date: 19 October 2022
* Format: Audible Audio
* Cover art and link: https://www.audible.com.au/pd/The-Boo...
* Description: When Richard Fidler came across the account of Ibn Fadlan — a tenth-century Arab diplomat who travelled all the way from Baghdad to the cold riverlands of modern-day Russia — he was struck by how modern his voice was, like that of a 21st century time-traveller dropped into a medieval wilderness. On further investigation, Fidler discovered this was just one of countless reports from Arab and Persian travellers of their adventures in medieval China, India, Africa and Byzantium. Put together, he saw these stories formed a crazy quilt picture of a lost world.
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms is the story of the medieval wanderers who travelled out to the edges of the known world during Islam's fabled Golden Age — an era when the caliphs of Baghdad presided over a dominion greater than the Roman Empire at its peak, stretching from North Africa to India. Imperial Baghdad, founded as the 'City of Peace', quickly became the biggest and richest metropolis in the world.