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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Ibn Battutah
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Description for The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Paperback. Ibn Battutah -- ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist -- was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca .. Editor(s): Mackintosh-Smith, Tim. Num Pages: 400 pages, map. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 254.
He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand 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, Battuta's Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330418799
SKU
V9780330418799
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About Ibn Battutah
Tim Mackintosh-Smith has lived in San'a -- the Yemeni capital -- for the last twenty years. His acclaimed Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah won him a Thomas Cook/ Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.
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