{"product_id":"from-the-meadows-of-gold-penguin-great-journeys","title":"From the Meadows of Gold (Penguin Great Journeys)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch of his work has vanished, but Mas'udi's (c.890-c.956) matchless \u003ci\u003eThe Meadows of Gold\u003c\/i\u003ehas almost miraculously survived- a compendium of stories and information on what he knew of the worlds of the Middle East, the Far East and Europe. It is both a great monument to Islamic scholarship and a time capsule allowing us into the world over a millenium ago.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreat Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw \u003ci\u003eastounding\u003c\/i\u003e things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mass Market Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780141025353\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mas'udi","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.77","offer_id":47962335314097,"sku":"SB-0141025352-C3","price":1.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/0141025352.jpg?v=1790136148","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-the-meadows-of-gold-penguin-great-journeys","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}