Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutah - Hardcover

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

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9780719567872: Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutah

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ISBN 10: 0719567874 ISBN 13: 9780719567872

Publisher: John Murray, 2010

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Born in Tangier in 1304, the Muslim traveller Ibn Battutah explored the furthest fringes of the known world, from Spain to the steppes of Central Asia. Seven centuries later, Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out to follow in his footsteps. This, the third volume of the resulting trilogy, takes him east to Tanzania, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and China, and west across the Sahara to Andalusia, exploring the faultlines between truth and myth, past and present, Islam and idolatry.

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Review:

'Few writers have the talent to pull off a notable trilogy in any genre . . . Tim Mackintosh-Smith's is not in doubt' --Sunday Times

Praise for The Hall of a Thousand Columns:
'As a writer and traveller Tim Mackintosh-Smith has two great gifts: he slips effortlessly between the past and the present, and he takes us with him. This is his first venture into India but he comes upon the scene like a breath of fresh air --Charles Allen

'Another triumph: travel writing of the very highest order' --Spectator

Book Description:

Tim Mackintosh-Smith concludes his travels in the footsteps of Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah across the 'worlds beyond the winds'

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