The Travels of Ibn Battutah ed by Tim Mackintosh-Smith - MCL

Petite hardcover format. If you love these tiny masterpieces, search "MCL" on our site to find more from this great series!  We'll be adding more over the next months.  If you have any requests from the series, please let us know and we can order it for you. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca . . . He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as the Volga, as far east as China and as