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Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Category: History
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language a ...Show more
Arabs - A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Category: History
A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstoneThis kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language an ...Show more
Landfalls by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Category: Non-Fiction
For 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, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in rem ...Show more
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Ed)
Category: History | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gift to those who contemplate the marvels of travelling in the ancient world. Ibn Battuta was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, travelling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, coveri ...Show more
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Category: Travel
Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, ...Show more
Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Category: Non-Fiction
Our 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 flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and menst ...Show more
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