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The Travels of Ibn Battuta, AD 1325–1354 : Volume IV by Ibn Batuta; C Defremery; B R Sanguinetti; H A R Gibb; C F Beckingham; A D H Bivar is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume completes the translation of Ibn Battuta's narrative. Volume III ended with Ibn Battuta's appointment by the Sultan of Delhi to accompany an embassy to China. In Volume IV he describes his journey to the coast where he embarked near Cambay and sailed to Calicut. Here the ships which were to take them to China were wrecked. Ibn Battuta joined the Sultan of Honavar in a temporarily successful attack on Goa, and then went to the Maldives, which had not long been converted to Islam by another North African. Here he functioned as a judge, married into the ruling elite, and became involved in a plot to bring the islands under the authority of a bloodthirsty Sultan in south India. On the way to join him, Ibn Battuta found himself in Ceylon and took the opportunity to climb Adam's Peak. He abandoned the planned invasion of the Maldives, to which he returned briefly, and the sailed to Bengal to visit an ascetic in Sylhet. He claims to have visited several countries in south-east Asia, including Sumatra and Java and some which cannot be satisfactorily identified, and arrived in China. After going to Canton he travelled by a non-existent river to Hang-chou and Beijing. His return

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Author

Ibn Batuta; C Defremery; B R Sanguinetti; H A R Gibb; C F Beckingham; A D H Bivar

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283247726

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Travel, Biography