Hall of a Thousand Columns
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780719565878
Category
Common Room
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
352
Subject
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim-- 1961-- travel-- India; Ibn Batuta-- 1304-1377-- travel-- India; India-- civilization-- 1200-1765.
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Description
Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the 30 years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. In this enchanting travelogue, Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan’s journey: the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaus of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Rajglittering and grotesque but genuineis revealed here. - from Amzon
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1
