{"product_id":"9781848544468","title":"Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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.             \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeven 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.                 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTim's journey is a search for survivals from IB's world - material, human, spiritual, edible - however, w hen your fellow traveller has a 700-year head start, familiar notions don't always work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153355620592,"sku":"9781848544468","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781848544468_p0.jpg?v=1763750220","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781848544468","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}