Meet Ibn

Ibn Battuta was born in 1304.   He was a Muslim scholar who was a tremendous adventurer.   He travelled through Central Asia, South East Asia, South Asia , China, and the Iberian Peninsula.   

Marco Polo chalked up around 15,000 miles - Ibn was credited with 72,000 miles.

He wrote a book with the snappy title - "A gift to those who contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling"

In the early days of this blog, I was figuring out the theme.  And I included three posts about my own very earliest traveling days while a student in Switzerland.  It points the way forward, I think, and I am going to try to serialise a lifetime of adventures - in all the places Ibn visited, and many more.

It should be fun (for me at least).

So let Ibn be the introducer of this series.  The next chapter will be a general taster.





Ibn Battuta - on the right.





 

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