The Adventures of Ibn Battuta : A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface

羅斯·鄧恩（Ross Dunn）在這裡講述了這位偉大旅行者的非凡事業，在伊斯蘭社會的文化和社會背景下對其進行了闡釋，並為讀者提供了一部非凡的傳記以及對中世紀人類交流的半球維度的研究。

Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.

Performance is inextricable from all aspects of the poems, from image to structure to background story. Background stories previously neglected, even in some of the most familiar passages (such as Phoenix’s speech in Iliad 9) are brought to the surface, and passages readers tend to rush through (such as Odysseus’s encounter with Eumaeus) are shown to have some of the richest dramatic potential. Attending to performance enlivens isolated features in a given passage by showing how they work together.

Ross E. Dunn (Auther) 

Publisher:University of California Press; First.