The Travels of Ibn Battutah
By (Author) Ibn Battutah
Edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Pan Macmillan
Picador
1st August 2003
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
General and world history
910.4
352
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 22mm
250g
Ibn Battutah 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.
Tim Mackintosh-Smith is the author of two celebrated books; Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land and Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battuta. He lives in Yemen.