num_pages: 325
description: Ibn Battutah was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage 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.
language: English
title: The Travels of Ibn Battutah
titlecomplete: The Travels of Ibn Battutah
genres: Biography, Medieval, Classics, History, Africa, Travelogue, Islam, Nonfiction, Travel, Adventure
ratings_count: 2301
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Picador