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The Hall Of A Thousand Columns:Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
65.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Brilliant travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith returns to the footsteps of Moroccan traveller Ibn Battutah to reveal the rich tales of an India far off the beaten track of Taj and Raj
The Hall of a Thousand Columns by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
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 mo ...Show more
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Ed)
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gift to those who contemplate the marvels of travelling in the ancient world. Ibn Battuta was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, travelling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, coveri ...Show more
Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
34.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For the Classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and menst ...Show more
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