{"product_id":"the-travels-of-ibn-battuta-a-d-13251354-vol-4-hakluyt-society-second-series-178-9780904180374","title":"The Travels of Ibn Battuta: A. D. 1325-1354  Vol. 4 (Hakluyt Society  Second Series  178)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume completes the translation of Ibn Battutas narrative. Volume III ended with Ibn Battutas appointment by the Sultan of Delhi to accompany an embassy to China. In Volume IV he describes his journey to the coast where he embarked near Cambay and sailed to Calicut. Here the ships which were to take them to China were wrecked. Ibn Battuta joined the Sultan of Honavar in a temporarily successful attack on Goa  and then went to the Maldives  which had not long been converted to Islam by another North African. Here he functioned as a judge  married into the ruling elite  and became involved in a plot to bring the islands under the authority of a bloodthirsty Sultan in south India. On the way to join him  Ibn Battuta found himself in Ceylon and took the opportunity to climb Adams Peak. He abandoned the planned invasion of the Maldives  to which he returned briefly  and the sailed to Bengal to visit an ascetic in Sylhet. He claims to have visited several countries in south-east Asia  including Sumatra and Java and some which cannot be satisfactorily identified  and arrived in China. After going to Canton he travelled by a non-existent river to Hang-chou and Beijing. His return to Morocco  during which he witnessed the ravages of the Black Death in Syria and Egypt  and called at Cagliari in a Catalan ship  is described summarily. He made two more journeys  the first to part of Spain still under Muslim rule  which included Gibraltar  Ronda  Malaga and Granada  and the other across the Sahara to the kingdom of Mali on the upper Niger  from which he returned to Fez via Timbuktu  Hoggar country and Tuat. Translated with revisions and new annotation from the Arabic text edited by C. Defrmery and B.R. Sanguinetti. Continued from Second Series 141  with continuous pagination. The first two parts are Second Series 110 and 117. The index to all four parts is provided in Second Series 190. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1994.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45794241740853,"sku":"ByrdShop_0904180379","price":336.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780904180374.jpg?v=1784825972","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-travels-of-ibn-battuta-a-d-13251354-vol-4-hakluyt-society-second-series-178-9780904180374","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}