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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century
ISBN: 9780520951617
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Ibn Batuta 1304–1377; Travelers -- Islamic Empire -- Biography; Travel Medieval;

Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times.

Ross E. Dunn is Professor of History at San Diego State University.