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Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

'In an age where writers feel the need to travel with fridges and pigs, this journey with a Tangerine stands out for its integrity and intelligence' Spectator
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'A gripping and accomplished travel book . . . [it] stands out for its integrity and intelligence' Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for twenty nine years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include an Islamic Butlin's in the Egyptian desert, Assassin castles in Syria, the Kuria Maria Islands in the Arabian Sea and some of the greatest cities of Medeival Islam. He also cleverly compares the contemporary Muslim world with the past.

'Mackintosh-Smith slips effortlessly between our world and that of the fourteenth century. In doing so, he has created a gripping and accomplished travel book... We will be lucky if there is a better one published this year' Sunday Times



'An immensely engaging book...Subversive good humour without relentless jokiness; and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complext details in a few telling lines' Daily Telegraph

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Title - Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah

Edition -

Author - Tim Mackintosh-Smith

ISBN 13 - 9780330491143

Imprint - Picador

Publisher - Pan Macmillan

Date Published - 07/06/2002

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 130 x 197 x 24mm

Weight - 305 g

Languages - English