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The Travels of Ibn Battuta: Volume III: A.D. 1325-1354

Door H.A.R. Gibb

Categorie
Ontdekkingsreizen & Expedities
Boeknummer
#358567-VC45
Titel
The Travels of Ibn Battuta: Volume III: A.D. 1325-1354
Auteur
Gibb, H.A.R. (editor)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1971
ISBN10
0521010330
ISBN13
9780521010337
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original blind stamped and gilt decorated blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some b/w plates, XI(1)539-771 pages, 8vo. The Hakluyt Society: Second Series: No. 141.
Samenvatting
Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor and as far as China.
Ibn Battuta was born in Tangier in 1304. Between 1324 and 1354 he journeyed through North Africa and Asia Minor and as far as China. On a separate voyage he crossed the Sahara to the Muslim lands of West Africa. His journeys are estimated to have covered over 75,000 miles and he is the only medieval traveller known to have visited every Muslim state of the time, besides the 'infidel' countries of Istanbul, Ceylon and China. The first two volumes recorded Ibn Battuta's earliest journeys through Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia, Iraq, Asia Minor and South Russia. In this volume he visits Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. There are detailed desc... (Lees verder)riptions of the towns on the way and the customs of the inhabitants. Sir Hamilton Gibb's edition comprises four volumes with introduction and full notes. This first complete and scholarly edition in English has proved essential to orientalists and illuminating to medievalists. The travels are a major source for the political and economic life of large regions of Asia and Africa. The observations of this intelligent representative of Islamic culture on almost all the known inhabited world beyond Europe provide fruitful comparisons with the life and geographical knowledge of the West. Translated with revisions and new annotation from the Arabic text edited by C. Defrémery and B. R. Sanguinetti. Continued from Second Series 117, with continuous pagination. The first part is Second Series 110, and the fourth Second Series 178. The index to all four parts is provided in Second Series 190. This volume covers Turkestan, Khurasan, Sind, north-western India and Delhi, including an account of the reign of Sultan Muhammad ibn Tughluq.
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Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 9,00

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