The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century by Dunn, Ross E - 1987

To this day, Muslims, and many others, know of the travels of Ibn Batuta. Over 25 years ago, I discussed him with a neighbor, who knew stories of Batuta that he had learned as a child in Somalia. Book: Black hardcover boards with gilt lettering on spine. Former owner's bookplate on left front endpaper. Text is as new, as are the covers and DJ. Dj has very light scuffing on its glossy paper, and it is price clipped. No other defects noted. The author, Ross Dunn, recounts the journeys of Ibn Batuta, who traveled throughout much of the then known world, through Moroccos Northern and Eastern Africa, the Near East, Iran, Crimea, India, Ceylon, Indonesia and China. All of this in the 1300s, when travel of this sort was rare, and dangerous. "....It is both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times."Mylar protected

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. 357pp. Black cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Bibliography, index.

Univ of California Pr, 1987. hardcover. Good. 5x1x8. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

University of California, 1986. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to a fellow scholar.

CA: University of California Press, 1986. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1986. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in black cloth with gold gilt titles in black and yellow pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, jacket intact, not price clipped. 355 pages plus xvi. Maps and more. '..........a biography of an extraoridinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.'. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Minor wear. VG., dustwrapper. 8pp plates. Medieval Travel Literature Univ. of California Press Berkeley (1986) orig. boards 22x14cm, xvi,357,(8) pp Contents: Introduction -- Tangier -- The Maghrib -- The Mamluks -- Mecca --Persia and Iraq -- The Arabian Sea -- Anatolia -- The Steppe -- Delhi -- Malabar and the Maldives -- China -- Home -- Mali -- The Rihla.

Univ of California Pr, 1987-03-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!