Speaking from his home in London, Jubber explains how Leo Africanus got a few things wrong, why you need to learn how to ride a camel if you are thinking of traveling in the region, and why books ...

One of the first books to educate readers on the detail, landscape and culture of Africa is written by Leo Africanus, considered to be the first person of African descent to write a book of the ...

A new translation is introducing the work of 16th-century traveller Leo Africanus to new generations of readers, writes David Tresilian The Geography of Africa, a book written in Italian by the ...

He is known to history as Leo Africanus. Well ... For that alone, this book is welcome.

Trickster Travels is a book about elites. As a young man ... We don’t know which culture Leo Africanus chose in the end, or how, where or when he died. If he returned to Fez, this was not remarked on ...

Historian Natalie Zemon Davis, currently an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto and best known for her book The Return of Martrin Guerre, has been a pioneer in the field of social history.