Travels with a Tangerine From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler

Name: Travels with a Tangerine From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler
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ISBN: 9780812971644

ISBN-10: 0812971647

ISBN-13: 9780812971644

Edition: 2004

Authors: Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Martin Yeoman

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In 1325, the great Arab traveler Ibn Battutah set out from his native Tangier in North Africa on pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned nearly thirty years later, he had seen most of the known world, covering three times the distance allegedly traveled by the great Venetian explorer Marco Polo—some 75,000 miles in all. Captivated by Ibn Battutah’s account of his journey, the Arabic scholar and award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out to follow in the peripatetic Moroccan’s footsteps. Traversing Egyptian deserts and remote islands in the Arabian Sea, visiting castles in Syria and innumerable souks in medieval Islam’s great cities, Mackintosh-Smith sought clues to Ibn…

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List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Tim Mackintosh-Smith is a noted British travel author, best known for his trilogy on the renowned Moroccan world-traveler Ibn Bauah, which earned him a spot among Newsweek’s top twelve travel writers of the past hundred years. Since 1982, he has lived in Sanaa, Yemen.