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The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Ibn Battutah author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:8th Sep '16

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A classic of travel writing, discover Ibn Battutah's epic journey in a beautiful hardback edition.

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 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 Tim Mackintosh-Smith, The Travels of Ibn Battutah takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

ISBN: 9781909621473

Dimensions: 158mm x 102mm x 28mm

Weight: 274g

472 pages