Published by London. Hakluyt Society. 1994, 1994
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
8vo, in 2 volumes, the second volume is the Index, original blue cloth, both fine in fine jackets, as new (gar). ~ Ibn Battuta (1304-1377) was one of the first great travellers in world history - a century before Marco Polo. He was a scholar of Islamic law and found employment all over the Muslim world as a traveling judge or advisor to the rulers. He travelled to medieval Ghana, Mecca, India, and China and wrote his travel stories after his return to his native Tangier, Morocco, which were widely translated numerous times from Arabic.