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The Travels of Ibn Battutah


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Contributors:

By (Author) Ibn Battutah
Edited by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

ISBN:

9780330418799

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Imprint:

Picador

Publication Date:

1st August 2003

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

General and world history

Dewey:

910.4

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

352

Dimensions:

Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 22mm

Weight:

250g

Description

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.

Author Bio

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.

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