All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the
fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies,
damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah
left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course
of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known
world between Morocco and China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces
one leg of the Moroccan's journey -- the dizzy ladders and
terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and a hermit,
courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of
Hindustan to the plateaux of the Deccan and the lost ports of
Malabar, the author reveals an India far off the beaten path of Taj
and Raj. Ibn Battutah left India on a snake, stripped to his
underpants by pirates; but he took away a treasure of tales as rich
as any in the history of travel. Back home they said the treasure
was a fake. Mackintosh-Smith proves the sceptics wrong. India is a
jewel in the turban of the Prince of Travellers. Here it is,
glittering, grotesque but genuine, a fitting ornament for his 700th
birthday.
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