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Rare and modern books

Mackintosh-Smith, Tim

Travels with a Tangerine. A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

Picador. London. New ed 2001,

10.00 €

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(Roma, Italy)
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Author
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
Publishers
Picador. London. New ed 2001
Keyword
Islam
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

Maps, 351pp, index, paperback. "Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include the Egyptian desert, Assassin castles in Syria, the Kuria Maria Islands in the Arabian Sea and some of the greates cities in Medeival Islam. He also compares the the contemporary Muslim world with the past." Publisher's description.