Adventures in the Golden Age of Islam

In The Book of Roads & Kingdoms, Richard Fidler charts the story of the medieval travellers who journeyed to the edges of the known world during Islam’s Golden Age, travelling through China, India, Africa and Byzantium. In conversation with Nicole Abadee, he talks about the flourishing cultural life of Imperial Baghdad, the literary accounts of its wanderers and the devastating fall of this dazzling lost world.

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Nicole Abadee writes about books for Good Weekend, appears regularly at writers’ festivals and other literary events and has a books podcast, Books, Books, Books.

Richard Fidler is a presenter of Conversations on ABC Radio National, which attracts a large listening audience around the nation and is the most popular podcast in Australia. Richard is also the author of several bestselling books: Ghost Empire, Saga Land (co-authored with his friend Kári Gíslason) and The Golden Maze. His latest book is The Book of Roads and Kingdoms.

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