The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century

Ibn Battuta's voyages around the world in the 14th century stand as an extraordinary testimony to the fluidity of movement along trade routes in the Middle Ages.  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 human interchange across cultures and societies in medieval times.