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050 00 $aE143$b.M3913 2003
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100 1 $aMawṣilī, Ilyās,$dactive 1668.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003058286
240 10 $aDhahab wa-al-ʻāṣifah.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003058290
245 13 $aAn Arab's journey to colonial Spanish America :$bthe travels of Elias al-Mûsili in the seventeenth century /$ctranslated from the Arabic and edited by Caesar E. Farah.
246 30 $aTravels of Elias al-Mûsili in the seventeenth century
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSyracuse University Press,$c2003.
300 $axxvii, 117 pages :$bmap ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMiddle East literature in translation
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00 $tJourney of the First Eastern Traveler to America -- $g1.$tFrom Baghdad to Venice -- $g2.$tTour of France -- $g3.$tSpain and Italy -- $g4.$tPreparing for the Journey to America -- $g5.$tThe Journey to South America -- $g6.$tArriving in America -- $g7.$tProceeding along the Coast of Venezuela -- $g8.$tDescription of Cartagena -- $g9.$tThe Journey to Panama -- $g10.$tThe Journey to Panama City -- $g11.$tFrom Panama to Guayaquil in the Land of Peru -- $g12.$tDescribing the Alligator Called "Caiman" -- $g13.$tFrom Guayaquil to Quito -- $g14.$tQuito and Its Environs -- $g15.$tFrom Quito to Cuenca: Describing the Bullfight -- $g16.$tMines of Gold -- $g17.$tJourneys and Dangers -- $g18.$tThe Cave of Gold in Piura -- $g19.$tFrom Piura to Trujillo -- $g20.$tThe Journey to Lima -- $g21.$tResiding in Lima -- $g22.$tDescription of Lima -- $g23.$tThe Journey to Huancavelica -- $g24.$tMercury Mines -- $g25.$tPetrified Water - Describing the Cactus -- $g26.$tArriving in Aguamanga -- $g27.$tThe Journey to Cuzco -- $g28.$tTraveling to Abancay -- $g29.$tDescribing Abancay -- $g30.$tThe Indians of Paucartambo -- $g31.$tMines of Silver -- $g32.$tCruel Death of a Wealthy Man -- $g33.$tMinting Silver -- $g34.$tAncient Inhabitants of the Land -- $g35.$tFreeing Some Prisoners - A Marble Quarry -- $g36.$tWealth Illegally Gathered -- $g37.$tTravel to Oruro and Potosi -- $g38.$tA Visit to the Mint and Silver Mine -- $g39.$tDescribing the Extraction of Silver -- $g40.$tJourneying to Chuquisaca -- $g41.$tDescribing Tucuman and Buenos Aires -- $g42.$tThe Deposed Viceroy -- $g43.$tA Traveler Befriending the Wronged -- $g44.$tThe Return to Panama from Peru -- $g45.$tThe Journey from Panama. Solomon's Island -- $g46.$tThe Land of Nicaragua -- $g47.$tThe Land of San Salvador, Describing the Plant of the Nile -- $g48.$tThe Land of Guatemala -- $g49.$tThe Land of Chiapa, a Messenger of Peace -- $g50.$tThe Journey to Mexico -- $g51.$tDescribing Mexico -- $g52.$tThe Wondrous Church of the Virgin -- $g53.$tHeretics Attack the Port of Vera Cruz -- $g54.$tFrom Mexico to Baghdad via China -- $g55.$tTales of China and the Philippines -- $g56.$tThe Mariannes Islands -- $g57.$tThe Return to Europe -- $g58.$tFrom Spain to Rome -- $gApp. A.$tPedro the Candian (Cretan): One of the Conquerors of Peru -- $gApp. B.$tChristian Relics in Central and South America.
520 1 $a"Reverend Antun Rabbat, a respected Jesuit scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, discovered these extraordinary writings in a Jacobite diocese in Aleppo, Syria. Rabbat immediately transcribed into Arabic those portions relating to the remarkable experiences of Reverend Elias al-Musili, a priest of the Chaldean Church, the first person ever to come to the Americas from Baghdad."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aLatin America$xDescription and travel$vEarly works to 1800.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116004
600 10 $aMawṣilī, Ilyās,$dactive 1668$xTravel$zLatin America.
700 1 $aFarah, Caesar E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50009178
830 0 $aMiddle East literature in translation.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98046162
852 00 $bglx$hE143$i.M3913 2003