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Ibn Batuta, the Arab Marco Polo

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Ibn Batuta. The Travels of Ibn Battutah. London: Picador, 2002.
Davis G370.I23 I26 2002
Perkins 910.4 I13, T779, 2002
An excellent and accessible new edition abridged, introduced and annotated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
Ibn Battuta. Excerpts from Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354, translated and edited by H.A.R. Gibb. London: Broadway House, 1929. Accessed October 26, 2003.
Excerpted on Fordham University's "Internet Medieval Sourcebook" Web site at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1354-ibnbattuta.html.
Selections from the earlier portions of Ibn Batuta's journeys, across North Africa, Syria, and Arabia.
Ibn Battuta. Excerpts from Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354, translated and edited by H.A.R. Gibb. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. Accessed October 26, 2003.
Excerpted on Fordham University's "Internet Medieval Sourcebook" Web site at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/batuta.html.
Short selections from the Gibb translation such as "On Slavery" and "On the Turks."
Ibn Batuta. The Travels of Ibn Batuta. London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829.
Request from storage through Davis library 910.4 I12t 1971
Perkins 915 I13A (US reprint)
"Translated from the abridged Arabic Manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, with notes, illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, &c. occurring throughout the work by the Rev. Samuel Lee."
Ibn Batuta. Travels, A.D. 1325-1354. Translated with revisions and notes from the Arabic text edited by C. Defrémery and B. R. Sanguinetti, by H.A.R. Gibb. Cambridge, Eng.: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1958-1994.
Davis G161 .H2 2nd ser.
Perkins 910.6 H156, 2nd ser.
  • no. 110: North Africa and Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Mecca to Kufa, Iraq
  • no. 117: Southern Persia and Iraq, Southern Arabia, Eastern Africa and Persian Gulf, Asia Minor and Southern Russia
  • no. 141: Turkestan and Khurasan, Sind and Northwest India, Sultan Muhammed, Ibn Tughluq and his reign, Ibn Batuta's stay in Delhi
  • no. 178: Delhi to Kinbaya, Southern India, the Maldives, Ceylon, Coromandel, Malabar and the Maldives, Bengal and Assam, Southeast Asia, China, China to Morocco, Spain, Mali, Timbuktu
  • no. 190: Index


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