The Adventures of Ibn Battuta : A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from Stbalbach

Ibn Battuta was a 14th century Moroccan Islamic scholar who spent about 30 years traveling throughout the Islamic world and beyond. It is one of the great travel accounts of history easily comparable with Marco Polo. This book is a scholarly gloss of his account designed for the non-specialist - ...

from bezoar44

Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta seems to have been a very lucky man. Born in Tangiers, ibn Battuta left in 1325, age 21, on a 24 year trip that took him across North Africa, the Near East, southern Russia, India, Sumatra, and perhaps China, returning in 1349. He subsequently also visited southern Spain ...

from DinadansFriend

Mr. Dunn has written a good book about the travels of the 14th Cent. traveller. The short historical sketches of the places IB visited are very helpful to the non-specialist. The maps, alas, are not plentiful and could have been a good deal more informative. He does raise the point that some area...

from FriStar7406

I gave this book a 3 star due to the fact that the title is misleading. Though a very well writing and entertaining book it is more of an account of the social backdrop in which Ibn Battuta traveled and not truly his adventures. Throughout the book M. Dunn starts with a little bit of Ibn Battuta'...

from jcovington

An interesting look at the late medieval muslim world as seen through the eyes of one of that culture's great wanderer-merchants.