The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
Subtitle: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 12, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780520067431
Subjects: History; Travelers; Ibn Batuta,; History - General History; Travel, Medieval; History: World; Medieval; Islam - General; General; History / General; 1304-1377; Biography; Islamic Empire
First sentence: The white and windy city of Tangier lies on the coast of Morocco at the southwestern end of the Strait of Gibraltar where the cold surface current of the Atlantic flows into the channel, forming a river to the Mediterranean 45 miles away.