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1	Yemen: The Unknown Arabia more books like this by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Martin Yeoman (Illustrator) Having spent much living time in this enchanted country (since 1982), Mackintosh-Smith describes his corner of Arabia, weaving together its history and cultural nuances to create an eloquent travelogue. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler more books like this by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Martin Yeoman (Illustrator) An expatriate Brit living in Yemen for 17 years explores the life and travels of an explorer named Ibn Battutah (1304-1368). A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $7.50! new only from $8.85! \| SVS
3	The Travels of Ibn Battutah more books like this by Ibn Battutah, Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Editor) 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 ... see all copies from $9.74! new only from $10.06! \| first editions
4	Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land more books like this by Tim Macintosh-Smith, Tim Mackintosh-Smith In this work, the author describes his journey through Yemen, portraying hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad, as well as examining the extraordinary history of the ordinary Yemenis. see all copies from $18.00! new only from $32.79!
5	Travels with a tangerine : a journey in the footnotes of Ibn Battutah more books like this by Tim Mackintosh-Smith An expatriate Brit living in Yemen for 17 years explores the life and travels of an explorer named Ibn Battutah (1304-1368). A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $19.21! \| first editions
6	Travels with a Tangerine more books like this by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Martin Yeoman (Illustrator) An expatriate Brit living in Yemen for 17 years explores the life and travels of an explorer named Ibn Battutah (1304-1368). A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $9.45! \| first editions
7	Travels With a Tangerine: a Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith 'A gripping and accomplished travel book ...[it] stands out for its integrity and intelligence.' - Anthony Sattin, "Sunday Times". Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for twenty nine years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's ... see all copies from $3.92! new only from $18.94! \| first editions
8	Yemen : travels in dictionary land more books like this by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Martin Yeoman Originally published by John Murray this is an account of Smith's time in Yemen, which started as a sabbatical year in 1982 and grew into fifteen years. Smith travelled the mountains, the desert and the sea and brings the country, the people and three millennia of history to life. see all copies from $24.50!
9	The travels of Ibn Battutah by Muhammad ibn Abd Allah Ibn Batutah, Tim Mackintosh-Smith Ibn Battuta was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, travelling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, covering 75,000 miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as far south as Tanzania. he wrote of his ... see all copies from $29.91! new only from $149.95!
10	The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah more books like this by Tim Mackintosh-Smith All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law. He returned nearly thirty years later having visited most of the known world between Morocco and China, the ... see all copies from $24.50! new only from $25.79!
11	Hall of a Thousand Columns more books like this by Tim Mackintosh-Smith All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and ... see all copies from $2.34! new only from $10.63!

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