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Yemen Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719597404
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia.For the classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where... -
Bloodstone by Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9789927118555
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.40The year is 1368 and Granada is under threat from violent extremists. Enter Abu Abdallah, the penniless globetrotter who has had wives and concubines on three continents but is still searching for... -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and getting as far north as... -
Hall of a Thousand Columns Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719565878
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India.Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his... -
Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.58A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR "Masterly and brilliant"-Simon Sebag Montefiore "A book of vast scope and stunning insight."-Anthony Sattin, Spectator "Commanding erudition and a... -
Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780719567780
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95For 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. Seven centuries on,... -
Travels with a Tangerine: From Morocco to Turkey in the Footsteps of Islam's Greatest Traveler by Tim Mackintosh-Smith 9780812971644
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971644Author Tim Mackintosh-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Im -
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Ibn Battutah
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.62Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return... -
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.20'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind... -
Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Perhaps the most readable history ever written' Time OutLords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic history; dramatic - detailed and alive - a journey, and a world all in one.The... -
Accounts of China and India by Abu Zayd Al-Sirafi
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional... -
Of Sea and Sand by Denyse Woods 9789774168031
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.39"Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster back home in Ireland, and begins an intense affair with a woman whom no one else has seen. Locals insist she must be one of the... -
Two Arabic Travel Books: Accounts of China and India and Mission to the Volga by Abu Zayd Al-Sirafi
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $42.34Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation... -
Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul by Taran Khan
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'A fabulous piece of writing . . . I recommend it unreservedly' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'A brilliant book' CHRISTINA LAMB, author of Farewell KabulOne of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul... -
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.20'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals,...