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Based on the life of Hasan al-Wazzan.
Based on the life of Hasan al-Wazzan.
Leo Africanus is a beautiful book of tales about people who are forced to accept choices made for them by someone else ... It relates, particularly at times and often imaginatively, the story of those who did not make it to the New World. Exile and pilgrimage, the power of sexua…
Overview: "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the F…
Written in the form of a memoir, this historical novel explores the meeting of two worlds, Islam and Christendom, through the adventures of real-life Arab traveler and geographer Hassan al-Wazzan.
Overview: "I, Hasan the son of Muhammad the weigh-master, I, Jean-Leon de Medici, circumcised at the hand of a barber and baptized at the hand of a pope, I am now called the African, but I am not from Africa, nor from Europe, nor from Arabia. I am also called the Granadan, the F…
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped t…
Curiosity was discouraged in the Greene tribe. Its members lived out their lives in cramped Quarters, hacking away at the encroaching ponics. As to where they were - that was forgotten. Roy Complain decides to find out. With the renegade priest Marapper, he moves into unmapped t…
Once a voracious adventurer, it has been many years since Hal Courtney has dared the high seas. Now he must return with three of his sons -- Tom, Dorian, and Guy -- to protect the East India Trading Company from looting pirates, in exchange for half of the fortune he recovers. I…