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title: "Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah Paperback – International Edition, January 1, 2012"
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# Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah Paperback – International Edition, January 1, 2012

**Brand:** tim mackintosh-smith
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- **What is this?** Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah Paperback – International Edition, January 1, 2012 by tim mackintosh-smith
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Polymath tells all
*by D***T on May 22, 2003*

A retracing of some of the journeys (Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Southern Arabia, the Kuria Muria Islands,Turkey and the Crimea)of the fourteenth century traveller, Ibn Battuta.The author is a British born and educated Yemen resident, fluent in classical and colloquial Arabic and deeply learned in history and music. The book contains quotations in French, German, Russian (in the Cyrillic alphabet), Turkish and Greek. I thought I'd caught him misquoting Pliny, but then realized he was making a Latin joke. Some of his polyglot puns are outrageous. In The Umayyad mosque in Damascus he found Ismailis and Shiites at prayer, but that the orthodox were keeping the Sunni side up.The long digressions on obscure Arab writers and religious teachers and the intrusive parade of erudition might put some people off. It's a bit like reading Umberto Ecco where some readers, such as myself, get entranced by the writer's flattering assumption that we are as clever as he is.He travelled rough and travelled alone. He explains at one point that he cannot marry because he is an "ah, orientalist." He shows much interest in, and sympathy with, the Moslem religion but I got the impression that. like his fellow orientalist, TE Lawrence, he likes Arabs best if they are poor and rural, a faintly patronizing attitude.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Interesting and extensive history
*by T***S on August 26, 2002*

'Travels with a Tangerine' is an excellent travel book and history book that chronicles the adventures of Ibn Battuta, one of the most famous Muslim explorers of the Euroepean 'Middle Ages'. Mackintosh-Smith, a 17-year resident of Yemen, follows "IB's" route from Morocco to Egypt to the Saudi Arabian peninsula to the Crimea and Istanbul, IB's 'Travels' as his main guide. Mackintosh-Smith's adventures are as compelling as IB's, and it is remarkable how much has not changed in the almost 700 years since IB began what was a 25-year journey that took him to China and back. The narrative is both entertaining and informative; however, it was a little dense at times, and I wish I knew more about IB and Muslim history before I started the book. The author gives one of the most balanced accounts of the modern Muslim world that I have ever read, and it's great to read about regular people who respect themselves and others, in contrast to the sensationalistic news reports we are bombarded with every night. A good book and a great adventure.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MacKintosh-Smith leaves every other (Travel)-writer in the dust
*by K***R on August 31, 2021*

If Travels With A Tangerine (and all books by this author) were the standard that all (travel)- writing had to match, we would be left with precious few books on the subject.

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