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| | 1. |  | The Travels of Ibn Battutah
from Macmillan UK
Price: $12.21
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If you want to read ibn Battutah in his own words, this is the best source currently available. But know what you are getting. 300 pages of small print, no pictures, no maps, no chronology, just the voice of ibn Battutah, echoing down through the ages. 25 pages of footnotes at the back help with the... more info
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| | 4. |  | Yemen: The Unknown Arabia
from Overlook TP
Price: $12.89
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Very much a British Arabist travelogue, and as Sir Charles Doughty, Sir Richard Burton, Wilfred Thesiger, Freya Stark, and T.E. Lawrence-- and perhaps less fervently so Jonathan Raban-- have demonstrated the past century-and-a-half, Mackintosh-Smith takes the trouble to enter the culture. He learns... more info
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| | 6. |  | Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land
from Trafalgar Square
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This is a book of poetry. MacKintosh has immersed himself so much in the culture that he has produced poetry as prose, in the highest genre of the Arab.
I try to write critical reviews. To weigh the good and the bad. I can't think of anything bad to say about this book. Whether or not I get to... more info
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