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The travels of Ibn Battutah Tim Machintosh-Smith

Ibn Battutah was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, traveling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, covering 75,000 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.

Features;

• Folio Society First Edition
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 2007
• Hardback Bound in Dark-Brown Buckram Blocked in Gold and Blue 353 pp
• Introduced by Tahir Shah
• Size 260mm x 180mm, 1.5kg

Condition: Near Fine – Light Rubbing to Spine

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