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This is a good book which I enjoyed reading. The author follows in the footsteps of Ibn Battutah (from Tangiers hence his being a Tangerine) who spent 29 years travelling some 75,000 miles around the world. This book follows part of Ibn Battutah's first journey from Tangiers to Egypt, through the Holy Land, the Black Sea and the Crimea before finishing in Constantinople. Many locations Ibn Battutah visited in the first half of the 14th Century are now lost or uncertain and many of the descriptions in his chronicles are now unclear. Enough survives however for the author to follow the route and visit many of the sites and other locations Ibn Battutah visited and he also meets several people whose ancestors met Ibn Battutah during his travels. My only criticism of this book are a number of Arabic, Latin and French passages and quotations the author seems to assume we all comprehend. I'm afraid I'm not that erudite and translations would be welcome. Otherwise this is a good book which I recommend to anyone interested in travel and history as well as in Ibn Battutah himself.Read full review
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