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Hall of a Thousand Columns

Af: Tim Mackintosh-Smith Engelsk Paperback

Hall of a Thousand Columns

Af: Tim Mackintosh-Smith Engelsk Paperback
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All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah''s India.

Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan''s journey -- the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and a hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaux of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, the author reveals an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj.

Ibn Battutah left India on a snake, 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. Mackintosh-Smith proves the sceptics wrong. India is a jewel in the turban of the Prince of Travellers. Here it is, glittering, grotesque but genuine, a fitting ornament for his 700th birthday.

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All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah''s India.

Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan''s journey -- the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and a hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaux of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, the author reveals an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj.

Ibn Battutah left India on a snake, 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. Mackintosh-Smith proves the sceptics wrong. India is a jewel in the turban of the Prince of Travellers. Here it is, glittering, grotesque but genuine, a fitting ornament for his 700th birthday.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780719565878
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0719565871
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 13 mar 2006
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: John Murray Press
Oplagsdato: 13 mar 2006
Forfatter(e): Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Forfatter(e) Tim Mackintosh-Smith


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ISBN-13 9780719565878


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 129mm


Højde 197mm


Udg. Dato 13 mar 2006


Oplagsdato 13 mar 2006


Forlag John Murray Press

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