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.
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'Both scholarly and playful, TRICKSTER TRAVELS is an unusual history of the Renaissance Mediterranean and a compelling biography.' -- Observer
'Davis skilfully brings to light the cultural, political and personal complexities [al-Wazzan] would have faced ... [A] wide-ranging and thoroughly enjoyable history.' -- Guardian
'This book puts more flesh on an extraordinary man.' -- Sunday Telegraph
'[A] lively, erudite account ... Davis's study is less a biography than a meditation on tolerance in a fraught age.' -- Independent on Sunday
'[An] entertaining and scholarly book.' -- Daily Telegraph
'[It] returns us to an extraordinary man, a paradigm for the peaceful coexistence that we need'. -- The Times
'Davis skilfully brings to light the cultural, political and personal complexities [al-Wazzan] would have faced ... [A] wide-ranging and thoroughly enjoyable history.' -- Guardian
'This book puts more flesh on an extraordinary man.' -- Sunday Telegraph
'[A] lively, erudite account ... Davis's study is less a biography than a meditation on tolerance in a fraught age.' -- Independent on Sunday
'[An] entertaining and scholarly book.' -- Daily Telegraph
'[It] returns us to an extraordinary man, a paradigm for the peaceful coexistence that we need'. -- The Times
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From acclaimed historian and novelist Natalie Zemon Davis comes an extraordinary story of a most enigmatic man.
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