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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century | Ross E. Dunn
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Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three decades and took him not only eastward to India and China but also north to the Volga River valley and south to Tanzania. The narrative of these travels has been known to specialists in Islamic and medieval history for years. Ross E. Dunn's 1986 retelling of these tales, however, was the first work of scholarship to make the legendary traveler's story accessible to a general audience. Now updated with revisions, a new preface, and an updated bibliography, Dunn's classic interprets Ibn Battuta's adventures and places them within the rich, trans-hemispheric cultural setting of medieval Islam.
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2 editions of the same book? This is what happens when you get manic about research for a new book and order a bunch of stuff in a haze of writerly adrenaline.

Dogearedcopy If you're not returning the extra copy, I'll buy it off of you! I became interested in this when I was doing the research for 'The Years of Rice and Salt' and put it on my Buy list; but for some reason, it got put on the back burner. 8y
rwrkb @Dogearedcopy If you don't mind a *very* used copy I'm happy to just give you the black copy. I bought the second copy because the first came in way worse shape than advertised. They refunded but didn't want it back. (edited) 8y
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