The Travels of Ibn Battutah / Edition 1

by Ibn Battutah, Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9780330418799
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Publication date:	06/01/2003
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	427,081
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.