The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Macmillan Collector's Library)

Author: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim

Brand: Pan Macmillan

Edition: Main Market Ed.

Binding: Hardcover

Number Of Pages: 472

Release Date: 04-10-2016

Part Number: 43171645

Details: Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

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.

EAN: 9781909621473

Package Dimensions: 6.1 x 4.1 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English, Arabic