Full name: The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah

Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780719565878 0719565871

Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the 30 years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. In this enchanting travelogue, Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan's journey: the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaus of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj--glittering and grotesque but genuine--is revealed here. Similar books: Landfalls by Tim Mackintosh-Smith Travels with a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith Yemen by Tim Mackintosh-Smith Slowly Down the Ganges by Eric Newby A Goddess in the Stones by Norman Lewis The Age of Kali by William Dalrymple Travels on my Elephant by Mark Shand Calcutta by Geoffrey Moorhouse No Full Stops in India by Mark Tully Chasing The Monsoon by Alexander Frater City of Djinns by William Dalrymple Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston A Traveller in Rome by H. V. Morton Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton Looking for the Lost by Alan Booth Goodnight, Mister Lenin by Tiziano Terzani The Road from the Past by Ina Caro South from Granada by Gerald Brenan The Crossing Place by Philip Marsden