Ibn Battuta In Black Africa
Contributors: Said Hamdun (Editor)
Edition: Expanded Ed edition
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: March 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781558763364
Subjects: Classic travel writing; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Africa, West; Africa; Travel - Foreign; History; History: World; Description and travel; Africa - General; Essays & Travelogues; 1304-1377; Ibn Batuta,; Africa, Eastern; Early works to 1800
First sentence: Ibn Battuta, who was born at Tangier in North Africa in 1304 and died not far from there some sixty-five years later, was the greatest of the pre-modern travellers and will go down in history as being notable among the travellers of all time.