The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Isbn: 9781909621473

Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Publisher: Booksite

The Travels of Ibn Battutah, abridged and edited by Arabic scholar and travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith, is an accessible modern edition of the classic 14th-century travelogue originally dictated by the legendary Moroccan explorer Ibn Battutah.The Core NarrativeThe book details the staggering odyssey of Ibn Battutah, who left his native Tangier in 1325 at the age of 21 for a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return home for 29 years. Instead, he embarked on a journey that covered 75,000 miles—three times the distance of Marco Polo—and spanned more than 40 countries on the modern map.3