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Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta

Relates the adventures of Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century traveler who, like Marco Polo, set forth on a seventy-five-thousand-mile journey of discovery through many lands, including Tanzania, China, Russia, and Morocco.

Related: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Morocco, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)

March 14, 2007Kathy G. Short discovery, Journey, Travel, traveler, voyage

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