The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Fülszöveg

Ibn Battutah was just twenty-one when he set out from his home town
in Morocco on a pilgrimage to Mecca. It was 1325, within a year of
Marco Polo's death, and it marked the beginning of an odyssey which
was to last twenty-nine years and cover three times the distance of
Polo's well-known journey.
In this elegantly abridged version of Ibn Battutah's Travels, Tim
Mackintosh-Smith brings the adventures of the writer, and the
medieval world through which he travelled, vividly to life. Anecdotal,
witty, gossipy and adventurous, this is a fascinating traveller's yarn
and a masterpiece of the genre.
'The literary fruit of Ibn Battutah's adventures - by camel, mule and
horse, dhow, junk and raft - was the mammoth The Precious Gift of
Lookers into the Marvels of Cities and Wonders of Travel, which is little
known today. It richly deserves this handsome new edition'
EVENING STANDARD
'This abridgement of Ibn Battutah's mammoth opus . . . shows us what
we have all been missing... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Ibn Battutah was just twenty-one when he set out from his home town
in Morocco on a pilgrimage to Mecca. It was 1325, within a year of
Marco Polo's death, and it marked the beginning of an odyssey which
was to last twenty-nine years and cover three times the distance of
Polo's well-known journey.
In this elegantly abridged version of Ibn Battutah's Travels, Tim
Mackintosh-Smith brings the adventures of the writer, and the
medieval world through which he travelled, vividly to life. Anecdotal,
witty, gossipy and adventurous, this is a fascinating traveller's yarn
and a masterpiece of the genre.
'The literary fruit of Ibn Battutah's adventures - by camel, mule and
horse, dhow, junk and raft - was the mammoth The Precious Gift of
Lookers into the Marvels of Cities and Wonders of Travel, which is little
known today. It richly deserves this handsome new edition'
EVENING STANDARD
'This abridgement of Ibn Battutah's mammoth opus . . . shows us what
we have all been missing A fourteenth-century travelogue might
seem a little arcane for modern readers, but Mackintosh-Smith, a
scholarly fellow, fluent in Arabic, who has spent the past eighteen
years living in Yemen, has a gift for making it accessible . . . His
editing has a light touch, despite the masses of pruning involved. The
Moroccan would have been flattered. In Mackintosh-Smith, he has
finally found a worthy champion'
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