Landfalls : on the edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra
Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Author), Martin Yeoman (Illustrator)
For Ibn Battutah of Tanier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenment 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 remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan sand-sea. His journey is a search for survivals from IB's world -- material, human, spiritual, edible. Here on the edge is where fear of Tantric demons stalks an Islamic island paradise; where at night in a certain Guinean village, and in the most literal sense possible, you can dance to the music of time--back cover
Print Book, English, 2011
John Murray, London, 2011