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.
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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.
Imprint | Picador |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | 2002 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | June 2003 |
Authors | Ibn Battuta |
Editors | Tim Mackintosh-Smith |
Dimensions | 197 x 131 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 325 |
Edition | New ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-330-41879-9 |
Barcode | 9780330418799 |
Languages | value |
Subtitles | value |
Categories | |
LSN | 0-330-41879-3 |