Ibn Battuta - The Journey of a Medieval Muslim

This introduction to medieval-age Battuta and his journey provides a fascinating window into what the world was like in the 14th century with illustrations, photographs, and maps that bring the rich and diverse world that produced Battuta to vivid life. Illustrations.

About the author

Edoardo Albert is a London-based writer of Italian and Sri Lankan extraction. He specialises in religion, travel and archaeology, and gets up early in the morning (5am!) to write stories.

Summary

Journey through the medieval world with Ibn Battuta, the greatest traveller of his time.

Foreword

Kube Publishing Ltd.

Additional text

Edoardo Albert has taken what may be the greatest journey ever made by one human – Ibn Battuta – compressed it elegantly, and still managed to communicate the time-transcending thrill of travel. In this odyssey-in-miniature, we can feel the itch of those fourteenth-century feet.

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Product details

• Authors: Edoardo Albert, Albert Edoardo
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 11 to 16
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2018
• EAN: 9781847740472
• ISBN: 978-1-84774-047-2
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 197 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 192 g
• Illustrations: Black and white illustrations throughout
• Series: A Concise Life; Concise Life
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Travel, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Religion / Islam, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Middle East, Middle East, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 14th century, c 1300 to c 1399, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Religious, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Islam