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Landfalls – On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra

For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn`t mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith`s passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan sand-sea. His zigzag itinerary across time and space leads from Zanzibar to the Alhambra (via the Maldives, Sri Lanka, China, Mauritania and Guinea) and to a climactic conclusion to his quest for the man he calls `IB` – a man who out-travelled Marco Polo by a factor of three, who spent his days with saints and sultans and his nights with an intercontinental string of slave-concubines. Tim`s journey is a search for survivals from IB`s world – material, human, spiritual, edible – however, when your fellow traveller has a 700-year head start, familiar notions don`t always work.

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