The Travels of Ibn Battuta A.D.1325-1354: v. 2

The Travels of Ibn Battuta - A.D. 1325 - 1354 Translated, with revisions and notes from the Arabic text by C. Defrenery and B.R. Sanguinette, by H.A.R. GIBB Born in Tangiers in 1304 Ibn Battuta began his extensive travels at the age of twenty-one, and over the next thirty years he visited Persia, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, India, China, Egypt, Sumatra, Spain and Ceylon. Known as "The Traveller of Islam" he travelled for its own sake in order to learn about unknown countries and new peoples. His only rule was 'never to travel any road a second time'. Volume II 262pp, 3 maps, 1 plate: southern Persia, Iraq, southern Arabia, east Africa, the Persian Gulf, Asia Minor, south Russia