The odyssey of Ibn Battuta uncommon tales of a medieval adventurer
Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travelers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta left an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys, punctuated by adventure and peril, throughout the Islamic world and beyond. Wh...
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The University of Chicago Press
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Travel tales, their creators and critics
- The travels
- Tales of food and hospitality
- Tales of sacred places, saints, miracles and marvels
- Tales of the "other"