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Ibn Battutah The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Hardback). Title: The Travels of Ibn Battutah. With this edition by Tim Mackintosh-Smith,The Travels of Ibn Battutah takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre. Author: Ibn Battutah. Further DetailsTitle: The Travels of Ibn Battutah Condition: New Description: Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. 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 historian and occasional botanist and gastronome.With this edition by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, The Travels of Ibn Battutah takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Author: Ibn Battutah EAN: 9781909621473 Format: Hardback Country/Region of Manufacture: GB ISBN: 9781909621473 Language: English Item Height: 156mm Item Length: 109mm Item Width: 28mm Item Weight: 252g ISBN-10: 1909621471 Genre: Travel & Transport Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library Release Date: 09/08/2016 Series: Macmillan Collector's Library Release Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.