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The Travels of Ibn Battuta - Dominoes 1
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The Travels of Ibn Battuta - Dominoes 1The Travels of Ibn Battuta - Dominoes 1

My first journey was a pilgrimage to Mecca. I got on a donkey and said "Goodbye" to my parents in Tangier when I was 21. My mother cried.'

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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta
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The Adventures of Ibn BattutaThe Adventures of Ibn Battuta

Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century By Ross E. DunnKnown as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic law. At the age of twenty-one, he left home to make the holy pilgrimage to Mecca. This was only the first of a series of extraordinary journeys that spanned nearly three decades and took him not only eastward to India and China but also north to the Volga River valley and south to Tanzania.
 
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