Following on "Travels with a Tangerine" (a New York Times Notable book) and "The Hall of a Thousand Columns," here is the third volume in the author's passionate pursuit of the 14th-century traveler who out-traveled Marco Polo For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments, and air travel. It meant traveling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries later, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's fascination takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports, and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan...
Following on "Travels with a Tangerine" (a New York Times Notable book) and "The Hall of a Thousand Columns," here is the third volume in the author's...
