The Rihla

The Travels of Ibn Battuta
1325 – 1354 · 29 years · three continents

In the summer of 1325 a young scholar of twenty-one rides out of Tangier alone, bound for Makkah. He will not see home again for twenty-four years.

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The road runs on for twenty-eight more years: the courts of the Ilkhans and the Golden Horde, the terrible splendour of Delhi, shipwreck off Calicut, the coral islands, the ports of China, the Black Death, Granada and the salt road to Timbuktu.

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