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Ibn Battuta (1304-1368)Arab traveller born in Tangier. In 1325, he went on an extraordinary 120,675-km/75,000-mi journey via Mecca to Egypt, East Africa, India, and China, returning some 30 years later. During this journey he also visited Spain and crossed the Sahara to Timbuktu. The narrative of his travels, The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, was written with an assistant, Ibn Juzayy. |
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These explorers are mostly white male Europeans, though Fleming includes the wanderings of Ibn Battuta, who went on the hajj to Mecca in 1325. Ibn Battuta in the Valley of Doom, by Abd al-Rahman Azzam, 1996, 29 pp. A note on Ibn Battuta and the original written account, a glossary, and translations of the Arabic, Persian, and Chinese phrases used in story margins throughout the book appear with the final map. |
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