Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.
Chargement... Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutahpar Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Aucun Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Absorbing book. Final book in trilogy. I read first book but not second. Ibn Battutah is 14th century Moroccan lawyer who travelled in Islamic countries. In this vol. Sri Lanka, China, West Africa, Andalucia. Author tries to find evidence of Ibn B.'s visit. £4.99 via Kindle Amazon. ( ) The third in a trilogy of travel books in which the author follows the steps of the Mediaeval traveller Ibn Battutah - in this volume to East Africa, the Maldives Sri Lanka, China and the Sahel. He combines scholarly detective work with current travel narrative and cultural insight. Compelling description and imagery. Strongly recommend this. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la série
For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan sand-sea. His zigzag itinerary across time and space leads from Zanzibar to the Alhambra (via the Maldives, Sri Lanka, China, Mauritania and Guinea) and to a climactic conclusion to his quest for the man he calls 'IB' - a man who out-travelled Marco Polo by a factor of three, who spent his days with saints and sultans and his nights with an intercontinental string of slave-concubines. Tim's journey is a search for survivals from IB's world - material, human, spiritual, edible - however, when your fellow traveller has a 700-year head start, familiar notions don't always work. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)910.92History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography and Travel History, geographic treatment, biography - Discovery. exploration Geographers, travellers, explorers regardless of country of originClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
Est-ce vous ?Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing. |