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The Travels of Ibn Battuta AD 1325-1354. Volume IV. Translated from the Arabic text and edited by C. DEFREMERY and B.R. SANGUINETTI.
Edited by H.A.R. GIBB and C.F. BECKINGHAM. London: Hakluyt Society, 1994, 212 pp. L30.00 (L24.00 to members). ISBN 0 904180 37 9
This is the fourth in a five-volume series which has taken more than twice as long in translation from the Arabic as the travels themselves. But do not be daunted by this or the severity of the title, for there is something here for everyone: historians, geographers, academics and not least the general reader who will surely enjoy the element of Boy's Own Paper about the hero's escapades, many reminiscent...