Ibn Batuta

Chronicles Arab explorer Sheikh Ibn Battuta's twenty-five-year pilgrimage to Mecca in 1325, describing his travels to the lands of every Muslim ruler of his time, including East Africa, Byzantium, Iraq, southern Russia, India, Ceylon, and China.

Looks at the travels of Ibn Battutah who traveled to over forty countries in twenty-nine years.

Presents an English translation of Ibn Batuta's recounts of his fourteenth-century journeys deep into black Africa.

An account of two African journeys, the first one from Egypt down along the eastern coastline as far as Tanzania, and the second down through the Western Sahara Desert.