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

Product details

• Authors: Ibn Battutah, Battutah Ibn, IbnBattuta, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
• Assisted by: Ti Mackintosh-Smith (Editor), Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781909621473
• ISBN: 978-1-909621-47-3
• No. of pages: 472
• Dimensions: 100 mm x 157 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; TRAVEL / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / World, Travel writing, CE period up to c 1500, Lifestyle, sport & leisure, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, General and world history, Classic Travel Writing, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval