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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Sketch Illus (illustrator). Tim Mackintosh-Smith's Travels with a Tangerine introduced the modern world to Ibn Battutah, 'Prince of Travellers'. Now they take to the road together once more for the next leg of Ibn Battutah's travels -- the great subcontinent of India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law. He returned nearly thirty years later having visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. To many contemporaries his tales were received as Munchausian fantasies -- and it was India that stretched his readers' credulity beyond the limit. Tim Mackintosh-Smith traces in situ the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of Ibn Battutah's Indian career -- as judge and hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. Over the course of his journey he also finds a dead Muslim posing as a Hindu deity, Jesus popping up in the pulpit of a mosque, and the rotten tooth of a mad sultan being revered as a saint. Ibn Battutah left India stripped to his underpants by pirates; but he took away a treasure of tales as rich as any in the history of travel. Back home they said the treasure was a fake.What Mackintosh-Smith returns with proves the sceptics wrong: India is the jewel in the Prince of Travellers' turban. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001270923
Book Description Condition: Good. Sketch Illus (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Seller Inventory # wbs6395784574
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Sketch Illus (illustrator). 1st Edition. The jacket is shelf rubbed.Internally clean and tightly bound. Multiple copies. EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # uv53
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Sketch Illus (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st edition/1st impression. Without inscription in not price clipped dust jacket, which is now protected by a removable transparent wrapper. Seller Inventory # ABE-1711397786597
Book Description Sketch Illus (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim 1961- Travel India. Ibn Batuta 1304-1377 Travel India. India Description and travel. Africa Description and travel. Genre: Biography. Language: English. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 365469
Book Description Sketch Illus (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by the author. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xi, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim 1961- Travel India. Ibn Batuta 1304-1377 Travel India. India Description and travel. Africa Description and travel. Genre: Biography. Language: English. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 365469