Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis

Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis

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Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance.

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Trickster Travels by Natalie Zemon Davis

Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during the Renaissance. Trickster Travels offers a virtuoso study of the fragmentary, partial and often contradictory traces that al-Hasan al-Wazzan left behind him, and is a superb interpretation of his extraordinary life and work.
"'Fascinating.. No review can do justice to the intelligence and richness of Davis's book.' Allan Massie, Telegraph"
Natalie Zemon Davis is Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. Her books include The Return of Martin Guerre which was made into two hugely successful movies and which pioneered a new kind of historical writing. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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ISBN 13 9780571234790
ISBN 10 0571234798
Title Trickster Travels
Author Natalie Zemon Davis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2008-01-10
Number of pages 464
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