This edition, translated afresh from the Arabic text, provides extensive notes which enable the journeys to be followed in detail.

In This Book Ibn Battuta Lays Before The Readers A Faithful Portrait Of Himself, With All His Virtues And His Failings And Gives Full Account Of His Widespread

Ibn Battuta was the traveler of his age—the fourteenth century, a time before Columbus when many believed the world to be flat. Like Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta l

Ross Dunn's classic retelling of the travels of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim of the 14th century.