The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0330418793
ISBN 13
9780330418799
Category
Muslim Philosophers and Scientists
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Publication Year
2003
Publisher
Pages
400
Description
Ibn Battutah—ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist—was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, traveling 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, Battuta's Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
