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The Travels of Ibn Battutah
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The Travels of Ibn Battutah

by Ibn Battutah

Recommended by Donald Knuth

Recommended by Donald Knuth

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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Travel, and History.

Ibn Battutah—ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist—was just21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another29 years, traveling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, covering75,000 miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as fa...

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Fascinating and eyeopening journal by a 14thcentury Muslim scholar.

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