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“THE Broadway Travellers” offers to the public in popular form a store of entertaining reading as well as a series of valuable records, many of which are not otherwise readily available. By including in this series the travels of Ibn Battúta, which are now for the first time made accessible to the English reader, the editors have earned the gratitude of all students of travel literature who are not professed orientalists. Ibn Battúta stands in the first rank of medieval travellers. As a iVioslem he gives a picture of the eastern world which not only differs in perspective but is at the same time truer and more intimate than that of the European travellers of about his own time. Granted the difference in orientation, the general attitude of mind of this traveller is more readily comprehensible to the modern reader than that of the medieval Christian.
Ibn Battúta, Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325–1354.
Translated and selected by H. A. R. Gibb. (The Broadway Travellers.) Pp. vii + 398 + 8 plates.(London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1929.) 15s. net.
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Ibn Battúta, Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325–1354 . Nature 124, 261 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124261b0
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