| Author | Claudia Roden |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Other | Samuel ben Abraham ibn Nathan, Viking, Immanuel ben Solomon of Rome, Mark Zborowski, Elizabeth Herzog |
| Cover Artist | Joseph Ha-Zarafati |
| Copyright Holder (Cover/Jacket Art) | The British Library* |
| First Published by | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Illustrator | John Spencer |
| Copyright Holder (Excerpt) | CIS Publishers, Commentary, Allen Mandelbaum, International Universities Press Inc. |
| Translated by | Yaakov Dovid Shulman |
| Typeset by | Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd |
| Printed by | Graphicom |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London |
| First Printing in Country | 1997 |
| This Edition Published | 1999 |
| Copyright | 1996 |
| Pages / Font | 581 pages / 10.75 / 12.75pt Monotype Bembo |
| Price | U.K. £ 16.99 |
| Price | CAN $ 45.00 |
| Printer's Key | 10 9 8 7 6 |
| Notes | "An odysset from Samarkand and Vilna to the present day" |
