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9781566492478
Ibn Battutah, the best traveler of the pre-mechanical age, set out in 1325 from his native Tangiers on the pilgrimage to Mecca. Arabic scholar and award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces the first stage of the Moroccan's eccentric journey, from Tangiers to Constantinople, traveling both in Ibn Battutah's footsteps and in the footnotes of his text.Mackintosh-Smith, Tim is the author of 'Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah', published 2002 under ISBN 9781566492478 and ISBN 1566492475.
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