The rise and fall of the Abbasid Empire, the obsession with knowledge and travel, and the devastating Mongol invasion.
Fidler’s book is a sweeping narrative of the . It uses the accounts of medieval travelers as a "crazy quilt" to reconstruct a lost world centered in imperial Baghdad. TheBookofRoadsandKingdomsepub
Includes famous figures like Ibn Fadlan , the 10th-century diplomat who traveled to Russia and witnessed Viking funerals. The rise and fall of the Abbasid Empire,
