MARC details
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02553cam a2200313 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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000072275536 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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AuCNLKIN |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20230727162548.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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220726t20222022xnaab erb 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780733342592 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1337102707 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
AUNRT |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
AUNRT |
| Modifying agency |
QBOO |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
anuc |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
909 |
| Edition number |
23/eng/20221020 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Fidler, Richard, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE |
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| Title |
The book of roads & kingdoms / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Richard Fidler. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Book of roads and kingdoms. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Sydney, NSW : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
ABC Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xv, 430 pages : |
| Other physical details |
ilustrations, map ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"From the wonders of imperial Baghdad to the darklands at the ends of the earth."--Cover. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
People obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. 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 twenty-first 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 & 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. Standing atop one of the city's four gates, its founder proclaimed: Here is the Tigris River, and nothing stands between it and China. In a flourishing culture of science, literature and philosophy, the citizens of Baghdad were fascinated by the world and everything in it. Inspired by their Prophet's commandment to seek knowledge all over the world, these traders, diplomats, soldiers and scientists left behind the cosmopolitan pleasures of Baghdad to venture by camel, horse and boat into the unknown. |
| 586 ## - AWARDS NOTE |
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| Awards note |
Winner 2023 Indie Book Award for Non-fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
World history. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
22482 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Antiquities. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Material culture |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Civilization |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Civilization, Medieval. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
16599 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
