The Odyssey of Ibn Battuta: Uncommon Tales of a Medieval Adventurer

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

✍ Ibn Batuta;Dunn, Ross E. 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English ⚖ 908 KB 👁 2 views

Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three de

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

✍ Dunn, Ross E 📂 Fiction 📅 1986 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three de

The Rose Demon: A Terrifying Tale of Medieval England

✍ Doherty, Paul 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Headline 🌐 English ⚖ 304 KB

The Rose Demon - A Terrifying Tale of Medieval England

✍ Doherty, Paul 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Headline 🌐 UND ⚖ 316 KB

The Fool's Tale: A Novel of Medieval Wales

✍ Galland, Nicole 📂 Fiction 📅 2005 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 377 KB

Wales, 1198. A time of treachery, passion, and uncertainty. King Maelgwyn ap Cadwallon, known as Noble, struggles to protect his small kingdom from foes outside and inside his borders. Pressured into a marriage of political convenience, he takes as his bride the young, headstrong Isabel Mortimer, ni

Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure

✍ Michael Chabon; Gary Gianni 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Del Rey 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

### From Publishers Weekly The odd bond between the young Frank Zelikman and the older, dark-skinned giant, Amram, serves as the basis for Chabon's short novel about life, war and religion in the 10th century. Wandering along the Silk Road, using both knowledge and trickery to earn their way, they