TIM MACKINTOSH SMITH

An expatriate Brit living in Yemen for 17 years explores the life and travels of an explorer named Ibn Battutah (1304-1368). A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

Ibn Battuta, el más grande viajero medieval, partió en el año 1325 de su Tánger natal en peregrinación a La Meca. Cuando regresó al Magreb, veintinueve años más tarde, había visitado la mayor parte del mundo entonces conocido, atravesando una distancia tres veces superior a la que presuntamente recorrió Marco Polo.

Un fascinante viaje a lo largo de tres mil años de historia de la civilización árabe. En este libro magistral, Tim Mackintosh-Smith recorre casi tres mil años de historia y hace que cobren vida ant

bn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand 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 Tim Mackintosh-Smith, The Travels of Ibn Battutah takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.