
The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library
Synopsis
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...
472 pages
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472 pages
Imprint: Macmillan Collector's Library