Title | : | The Best Traveled Man on Earth |
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Author | : | Jan Morris |
Release | : | 2014-08-19 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs, Books, Travel & Adventure, Specialty Travel, History, Middle Eastern History, Travel Essays & Memoirs |
Size | : | 3278169 |
Six centuries ago, the Islamic world was the pinnacle of civilization. What was it really like? The answer is in the twelfth-century diaries of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler who spent thirty years journeying some 73,000 miles. Here, in this short-form book from acclaimed writer and bestselling author Jan Morris, in the little-known story of perhaps the greatest traveler of all time. |