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 ...
In 1326, Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid scenes from Morocco, southern Russia, India, China, and elsewhere. "Essential reading . . . the ultimate in real life adventure stories." -- "History in Review."
This title is the travelogue of the famous African traveler called Ibn Battuta. Setting out in 1325 with the intention of making a pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, he traveled via North Africa and the far East to reach there. Traveling with caravans he, after the pilgrimage was over, traveled all across Mesopotamia (Iraq) and ...
Abu Abdalla ibn Battuta (1304-1354) was one of the greatest travellers of pre-modern times. This is his report of black Africa, a document of the high culture, pride and independence of black African states in the 14th century. He writes disapprovingly of sexual integration in families.
Obra fundamental de la literatura de viajes a la par que clasico arabe, A traves del Islam es el relato, escrito en primera persona, de las desventuras y goces del tangerino Ibn Battuta en su dilatadisismo viajc desde Marruecos hasta China en pleno siglo XIV. A su regreso, tras veintitres anos de ausencia, el viajero compila en Marruecos, con la ...
He journeyed farther than his near contemporary Marco Polo, though Muslim scholar Ibn Battuta (1304-c. 1377) is barely remembered at all compared to that legendary traveler. But Battuta's story is just as fascinating, as this 1829 translation of his diaries, by British Orientalist REV. SAMUEL LEE (1783 -1852), demonstrates. Embarking upon what ...
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