The travels of Ibn Battutah
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The travels of Ibn Battutah
Picador, 2002
- Other Title
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تحفة النظار في غرائب الامصار وعجائب الاسفار
- Uniform Title
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Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʾib al-amṣār wa-ʿajāʾib al-asfār
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"Abridged from the translation by Professors Sir Hamilton Gibb and C.F. Beckingham originally published by the Hakluyt Society in four volumes, 1958-1994"--T.p. verso
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Ibn Battuta 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. With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith, Battuta's "Travels" takes place alongside other masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.
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