Author
Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377, author Author info »
Author Original
Defrémery, C., translator, editor Sanguinetti, B. R. (Beniamino Raffaello), 1811-1883, translator, editor
Publication Date
2015
Publication Place
Cambridge -
Cambridge University Press
Subject
Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377. Voyages and travels > Early works to 1800.
Type
Book
Language
ara,fra
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
575
Physical Dimensions
1 online resource (iv, 575 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Library
The Cornell University Library
Library Asset ID
9781139176309 (ebook)
Record ID
15659759
Library Location
Cornell University Library
Date
2015
Notes
Also issued in print: 2012. Originally published: Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1858.
Sample Text
This four-volume edition of the Arabic text of the Journey of the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9), with a French translation was published in 1853-8. In 1325, Ibn Battuta, who came from a family of jurists in Tangier, set out to make the pilgrimage to Mecca - the beginning of a journey that would last for twenty-four years and take him as far as China. In Volume 4, the sultan of Delhi asks Ibn Battuta to lead an embassy to China, during which he suffers difficulties, including attacks by Hindus, and shipwreck. He eventually reaches China via Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Philippines; he then performs a fourth hajj before returning home, after twenty-four years' absence. He sets out again, to visit first Muslim Spain and then further regions of Africa, as far south as Timbuktu and down the river Niger, before returning home to dictate an account of his travels.
Diğer biçim
Print version: ISBN: 9781108044110
Seri
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration.
