The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Informationen zum Autor Fourteenth century author Ibn Battutah is best known as an explorer and travel writer. His writings describe his extensive travels through most of the known Islamic world, from West Africa, Pakistan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and China. 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. Klappentext 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. Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca . . . Zusammenfassung Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca . . .

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ibn Battuta, Ibn Battutah, Battutah Ibn, Ibn Buttatah
• Mitarbeit: Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Picador Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.06.2003
• EAN: 9780330418799
• ISBN: 978-0-330-41879-9
• Seiten: 352
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Reise > Reiseberichte, Reiseerzählungen; TRAVEL / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / World, Travel writing, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, General and world history, Classic Travel Writing, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval