Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return t
Ibn Battutah—ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist—was just21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgramage to Mecca. He did not ret
In 1325, the great Arab traveler Ibn Battutah set out from his native Tangier in North Africa on pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned nearly thirty years later, he had seen most of the known w
