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PETER AVERY Iskandanamah, A Persian Medieval Alexander-Romance (Persian Heritage Series No. 31), by Minoo S. Southgate 48/2, p. 286
C. David Benson The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus, by Valerie I. J. Flint 62/2, p. 367

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