Ibn Battuta
The Travels of Ibn Batuta
The Travels of Ibn Batuta
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📖 Public Domain Classic — Islamic Golden Age
Description
The Travels of Ibn Batuta recounts one of history's great journeys. Setting out from Tangier in 1325 at the age of twenty-one, intending only to make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Ibn Battuta did not return home for nearly thirty years — having in the meantime crossed almost the entire Islamic world and beyond: North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Iraq and Persia, the Byzantine court at Constantinople, the Central Asian steppe, India (where he served for years as a judge under the Sultan of Delhi), the Maldives, Ceylon, Sumatra, and China. His journey covered roughly 75,000 miles, farther than any other traveler of his age is known to have gone. This edition presents Samuel Lee's 1829 English translation, published for the Oriental Translation Committee, including the Translator's Preface and the complete twenty-five chapters of the narrative.
Author & Genre
Author: Ibn Battuta (1304–1368/69)
Genre: Travel Literature / Islamic Golden Age Non-Fiction
Translator: Samuel Lee (1829)
Audiobook: unabridged LibriVox recording, about 7 hours, in MP3 format (chapter files plus one “download all” ZIP).
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