Travels With A Tangerine: A Journey In The Footnotes Of Ibn Battutah
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What happens when a modern wanderer sets out to retrace the footsteps of history's greatest traveller? Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah chronicles Tim Mackintosh-Smith's extraordinary quest to follow the 14th-century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battutah across the Islamic world, from the sun-scorched streets of Tangier to the ancient bazaars of Anatolia, the gilded minarets of Mali, and beyond. With sharp wit, boundless curiosity, and a scholar's eye for detail, Mackintosh-Smith uncovers a world that is at once achingly familiar and utterly transformed — where medieval manuscript meets modern chaos, and where the ghost of Ibn Battutah seems to linger around every crumbling corner. Mackintosh-Smith writes with a rare combination of erudition and exuberant humour, weaving together medieval history, Islamic culture, and laugh-out-loud travel anecdotes into a narrative that is both intellectually rigorous and irresistibly readable. His prose illuminates the profound continuities between the medieval Islamic world and its contemporary successor states, presenting a portrait of a civilisation that has endured centuries of upheaval with its spirit largely intact. As much a meditation on the nature of travel and memory as it is a geographical adventure, this is a book that will leave any reader wondering: what other worlds lie hidden in the footnotes of history?
Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Format: Hardback
Published: 2001, John Murray
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What happens when a modern wanderer sets out to retrace the footsteps of history's greatest traveller? Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah chronicles Tim Mackintosh-Smith's extraordinary quest to follow the 14th-century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battutah across the Islamic world, from the sun-scorched streets of Tangier to the ancient bazaars of Anatolia, the gilded minarets of Mali, and beyond. With sharp wit, boundless curiosity, and a scholar's eye for detail, Mackintosh-Smith uncovers a world that is at once achingly familiar and utterly transformed — where medieval manuscript meets modern chaos, and where the ghost of Ibn Battutah seems to linger around every crumbling corner. Mackintosh-Smith writes with a rare combination of erudition and exuberant humour, weaving together medieval history, Islamic culture, and laugh-out-loud travel anecdotes into a narrative that is both intellectually rigorous and irresistibly readable. His prose illuminates the profound continuities between the medieval Islamic world and its contemporary successor states, presenting a portrait of a civilisation that has endured centuries of upheaval with its spirit largely intact. As much a meditation on the nature of travel and memory as it is a geographical adventure, this is a book that will leave any reader wondering: what other worlds lie hidden in the footnotes of history?