Travels with a Tangerine
"Ibn Battutah, the greatest traveler of the pre-mechanical age, set out in 1325 from his native Tangiers on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, traveling three times the distance Marco Polo allegedly covered.". Destinations include the Egyptian desert, castles in Syria, the Kuria Muria Islands in the Arabian Sea, the shores of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, and some of the greatest cities of medieval Islam. Mackintosh-Smith also explores a parellel landscape: the contemporary Muslim world, filled with wonders and marvels, at once fresh and strangely resonant with echoes of Ibn Battutah's own travels."--BOOK JACKET.