xxvi, 614 pages, 8 folded leaves of plates : maps ; 22 cm.

Arab navigation in the Indian Ocean before the coming of the Portuguese : being a translation of Kitāb al-Fawāʼid fī uṣūl al-baḥr waʼl-qawāʼid of Aḥmad b. Mājid al-Najdī ; together with an introduction on the history of Arab navigation, notes on the navigational techniques and on the topography of the Indian Ocean and a glossary of navigational terms / by G.R. Tibbetts.

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