Trickster Travels: In Search of Leo Africanus: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis

Trickster Travels: In Search of Leo Africanus: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds

Natalie Zemon Davis

435 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous challenging informative fast-paced
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Al-Hasan al-Wazzan--born in Granada to a Muslim family that in 1492 went to Morocco, where he traveled extensively on behalf of the sultan of Fez--is known to historians as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa to be published in ...

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