The Travels of Ibn Battutah

The Travels of Ibn Battutah--------------------------------------------------He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travellinginstead through more than forty countries on the modern map, coveringseventy-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 histravels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotalhistorian and occasional botanist and gastronome. With this editionby Mackintosh-Smith, Battuta's Travels takes its place alongsideother indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Tim Mackintosh-Smith has lived in San'a -- the Yemenicapital -- for the last twenty years. His acclaimed Travels with aTangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah won him a ThomasCook/ Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.