A gift to those who contemplate the marvels of travelling in the ancient world.
Ibn Battuta was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, travelling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, covering 75,000 miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far East as China and as far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist and gastronome. With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith, Travels of Ibn Buttutah takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.
Product details
Publisher : Picador (1 August 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0330418793
ISBN-13 : 978-0330418799
Reading age : 18 years and up
Dimensions : 12.95 x 2.16 x 19.56 cm
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