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Following on Travels with a Tangerine (a New York Times Notable book)and The Hall of a Thousand Columns , here is the third volume inthe author'spassionate pursuit of the 14th-century traveler who out-traveled Marco Polo For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didnt mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments, and air travel. It meant traveling the known world to its limits. Seven centurieslater, Tim Mackintosh-Smiths fascination takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports, and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan sand-sea. His zigzag itinerary across time and space leads from Zanzibar to the Alhambra (via the Maldives, Sri Lanka, China, Mauritania, and Guinea) and to a climactic conclusion to his quest for the man he calls "IB"a man who who spent his days with saints and sultans and his nights with an intercontinental string of slave-concubines. Tims journey is a search for survivals from IBs worldmaterial, human, spiritual, ediblehowever, when your fellow traveler has a 700-year head start, familiar notions dont always work.

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Author

Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, 1961-; Yeoman, Martin

Publisher

London: John Murray

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719567872

Category

travel

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Travel

Rating

4.21 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14