The Travels of Ibn Battutah [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Battutah, Ibn; MacKintosh-Smith, Tim

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ISBN 10: 0330418793 ISBN 13: 9780330418799

Casa editrice: Picador, 2003

Riassunto

Ibn Battutah?ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist?was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, traveling 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 travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian, and occasional botanist and gastronome. With this edition by Mackintosh-Smith, Battuta's Travels takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.

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Descrizione del libro:

Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca . . .

L'autore:

Tim Mackintosh-Smith has lived in San'a?the Yemeni capital?for the last twenty years. His acclaimed Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah won him a Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.

Tim Mackintosh-Smith has lived in San'a&;the Yemeni capital&;for the last twenty years. His acclaimed Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah won him a Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0330418793
• ISBN 13: 9780330418799
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400