The Best Traveled Man on Earth - Jan Morris

The Best Traveled Man on Earth

By Jan Morris

  • Release Date: 2014-08-19
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

Description

Six centuries ago, the Islamic world was the pinnacle of civilization. What was it really like? The answer is in the twelfth-century diaries of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan traveler who spent thirty years journeying some 73,000 miles. Here, in this short-form book from acclaimed writer and bestselling author Jan Morris, in the little-known story of perhaps the greatest traveler of all time.