The travels of Ibn Battutah
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The travels of Ibn Battutah
Picador, 2003, c2002
- : pbk
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تحفة النظار في غرائب الامصار وعجائب الاسفار
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Includes bibliographical references
"This paperback edition published 2003 by Picador"--T.p. verso
"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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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.
by "Nielsen BookData"