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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Odyssey of Ibn Battuta
    sub title: uncommon tales of a medieval adventurer
  name:
    name part: Waines, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Ibn Batutta
    name part: 1304-1377
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: I.B. Tauris
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 226 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in fourteenth-century Morocco and contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond. ... David Waines discusses [Ibn Battuta's work], life, and times ..."-- Jacket.
  table of contents: 1. travel tales, their creators and critics -- 2. The travel -- 3. Tales of food and hospitality -- 4. Tales of sacred places, saints, miracles and marvels -- 5. Tales of the 'other'
  note: David Waines
  note: Also published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ibn Batutta
      name part: 1304-1377
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ibn Batutta
      name part: 1304-1377
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Islamic Empire
  subject:
    topic: Travel, Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Travelers
    topic: Islamic Empire
    topic: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Islamic Empire
    topic: Description and travel
    genre: Early works to 1800
  classification: G370.I2 W35 2010
  identifier: 1845118057 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9781845118051 (hbk.)
  record info:
    record creation date: 110508
    record change date: 20110822093000.0
    record identifier: 0000072451