Ibn Battuta: The Medieval World's Greatest Traveler Throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe

by Daniel E. Harmon

Ibn Battuta, a fourteenth-century Moroccan adventurer and religious scholar, was one of the most ambitious travelers of the Silk Road. Scholars estimate his lifelong journeys covered no fewer than 75,000 miles. Because of his knowledge of Muslim history and laws, he was greatly respected by the Muslim rulers he visited. His geographical records helped fill in the pieces of a mysterious world, a world in which people of different regions knew little...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508171505
• ISBN13: 9781508171508
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7