Hall of a Thousand Columns

Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the 30 years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. In this enchanting travelogue, 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 hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaus of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj—glittering and grotesque but genuine—is revealed here.

• Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutah
• Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
• Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra
• Travels With A Tangerine
• Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
• Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler
• The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Macmillan Collector's Library)
• Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography