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The Travels of Ibn Batuta - With Notes, Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiquities, etc. Occurring throughout the Work (Paperback)
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The Travels of Ibn Batuta - With Notes, Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiquities, etc. Occurring throughout the Work (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Medieval History
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This English edition of the work of the Arab traveller usually
known as Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9) was translated by Rev. Samuel Lee
(1783-1852), Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge,
from 'the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the
Public Library of Cambridge', and published in 1829. Lee's work
sparked widespread European interest in Ibn Battuta, who had set
off from his native Morocco on a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325, and
kept travelling for the next twenty-four years, reaching as far
east as China and as far south as Zanzibar, as well as visiting
parts of Spain and the Byzantine Empire. On his return, he dictated
an account of his travels; Lee translated an abridged version, but
fuller versions were later discovered. There is doubt as to whether
Ibn Battuta actually saw everything he described, but this account
gives a fascinating world-view from the medieval period.
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