{"product_id":"9781909621473","title":"The Travels of Ibn Battutah","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Battutah, Ibn \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ec 1000 CE to c 1500\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 September 2016 by PAN MACMILLAN (Macmillan Collector's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Macmillan Collector's Library' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 472 pages\u003cbr\u003e106 x 157 x 24 | 254g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIbn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage 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 far south as Tanzania. He wrote of his travels, and comes across as a superb ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist and gastronome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith this edition by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, The Travels of Ibn Battutah takes its place alongside other indestructible masterpieces of the travel-writing genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookshop Mold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55504673243512,"sku":"9781909621473","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0277\/7802\/3522\/files\/9781909621473.jpg?v=1773927196","url":"https:\/\/www.mold-bookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781909621473","provider":"The Bookshop. Mold.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}