The travels of Benjamin of Tudela through three continents in the twelfth century
A fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, China, Egypt, and Sicily. Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century Imagine a time when streets were nar...
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New York :
Farrar Straus Giroux,
2005.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Shulevitz, Uri, |d 1935- | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The travels of Benjamin of Tudela : |b through three continents in the twelfth century / |c Uri Shulevitz. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Farrar Straus Giroux, |c 2005. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 v. (unpaged) : |b col. ill., col. maps ; |c 29 cm. | ||
| 520 | |a A fictionalized account of the travels of Benjamin, a Jewish man from Tudela, Spain, who, in 1159, set out on a fourteen-year-long journey that took him to Italy, Greece, Palestine, Persia, China, Egypt, and Sicily. Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century Imagine a time when streets were narrow and dirty, towns were surrounded by walls, brigands lurked alongside roads that were treacherous and few, bridges over rivers were rare, and a man setting out on a journey never knew if he would return alive. It was the year 1159 when the medieval Jewish traveler Benjamin left his native town of Tudela in northern Spain on an adventure to see the places he had read about in the Bible. He traveled for fourteen years - from Rome to Constantinople to Jerusalem to Baghdad, among others - by ship, by cart, and on foot, enduring great hardships in his quest for knowledge of other places and people. Working from Benjamin's original chronicle, written in Hebrew, as well as other sources on the period, Uri Shulevitz captures the true spirit of this amazing adventurer, using a text written in the first person and superlative illustrations. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 600 | 0 | 0 | |a Benjamin, |c of Tudela, |d 12th cent. |v Juvenile fiction. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Jews |x History |v Juvenile Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Middle Ages |v Juvenile fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Travelers |v Juvenile fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Voyages and travels |v Juvenile fiction. | |
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