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The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Macmillan Collector's Library)
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. 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. ... Read more
Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Macmillan Collector's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Macmillan Collector's Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909621473
SKU
V9781909621473
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About Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Tim Mackintosh-Smith has lived in Sana'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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