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Landfalls
  • ISBN: 9780719567780
  • Pages: 384
  • Illustrations: Martin Yeoman
  • Publisher: John Murray
  • Binding: Paperback

Landfalls

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller Ibn Battutah 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.



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