Jewish travellers in the Middle Ages :  19 firsthand accounts / 
edited and with an introduction by Elkan Nathan Adler. 
 - New York :  Dover,  1987. 
 - xxii, 391 p., [2] p. of plates :  ill. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Translation of selections from: Otsar masaʻot.  Includes index. 
<br/><br/> his fascinating book vividly portrays the wandering Jew as a very real character in the great drama of history. In nineteen engaging narratives, some twelve centuries old, travelling Jewish scholars, merchants, pilgrims, ambassadors, and others are revealed to be men of many moods and missions. In these pages you will meet: Isaac, an interpreter in the service of the Emperor Charlemagne, who in the year 802 escorted an elephant named Abulabaz, a gift to the Emperor from the caliph Harun ar-Rashid, over the Alps to the Emperor's court. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>048625397X (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>87013434 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Voyages and travels--History--To 1500.<br/>Jewish travelers--History--To 1500.<br/>Jews--History--To 1500.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>PALESTINE--Description and travel.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G277  / .O88213 1987 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>910/.89924