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Author Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377

Title Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 / Ibn Battúta ; [translated and selected by H.A.R. Gibb]
Published London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series The Broadway travellers ; 18
Broadway travellers ; 18.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps and Illustrations; Introduction; Book I; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Book II; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Chapter X; Chapter XI; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII; Chapter XIV; Notes; Index of Geographical Names; Index of Personal Names, Etc
Summary 'One of the most fascinating travel books of all time' Times Literary Supplement 'He could not have been more 'modern' if he had been born in the twentieth century' Evening Standard Ibn Battuta was the only medieval traveller who is known to have visited the lands of every Muhammadan ruler of his time and the extent of his journeys is estimated to be at least 75,000 miles. His work presents a descriptive account of Muhammadan society in the second quarter of the fourteenth century, which illustrates, among other things, how wide the sphere of influence of the Muslim m
Notes Facsim. of ed. published: 1929
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-383) and indexes
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Print version record
Subject Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377 -- Travel -- Asia
Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377 -- Travel -- Africa
SUBJECT Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377 fast
Subject Travelers -- Islamic Empire -- Biography
Voyages and travels.
journeys.
TRAVEL.
Voyages and travels
Travelers
Travel
SUBJECT Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
Subject Islamic Empire
Africa
Asia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Early works
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Gibb, H. A. R. (Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen), 1895-1971
ISBN 0203340442
9780203340448
1134285647
9781134285648
1280291427
9781280291425
9786610291427
661029142X
1134285639
9781134285631
Other Titles Tuḥfat al-nuẓẓār fī gharāʼib al-amṣār wa-ʻajāʼib al-asfār. Selections. English