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Henry Day: Ibn Battutah’s travels, 15 December 2005
The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
Murray, 333 pp., £20, March 2005,0 7195 6225 2 Show More
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith.
Murray, 333 pp., £20, March 2005,
“... meets (all 1500 of them) and the places he visits with enthusiasm at once wide-eyed and critical. Tim Mackintosh-Smith has lived in Yemen since the early 1980s; his first book was Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land (1997). A couple of years later, poking around in Sana’s Greater Yemen Bookshop, he came across Ibn Battutah’s memoir, and decided to ... ”
