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Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King
candor about the experience of turning her literary archive over to the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale and about being targeted by an enraged online anti-capitalist stalker
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North Martin Sostre Weaving together narrativeAuthor Contributor(s): Ibn Fadlan; Lunde, Paul; Lunde, Paul; Stone, Caroline; Stone, Caroline Publisher: Penguin Classics Date: 1 31 2012 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translation Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorers journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. Ibn