Comments on: Daily Bookshot: History’s Greatest Travelogue?

By: The Really Old Classics Challenge « A Striped Armchair

The Really Old Classics Challenge « A Striped Armchair — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:33:37 +0000

[...] Travels of Ibn Battutah trans. by Tim Mackintosh-Smith: Rob of RobAroundBooks makes this 14th century travelogue sound irresistable. And the editor, Tim Mackintosh-Smith published his own [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:00:57 +0000

Eva – Definitely the original fourteenth-century first. ‘Travels with a Tangerine’ is ore of a supplement.
Good luck. It sounds like an great challenge
Warmest
Rob

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:59:51 +0000

Hi Rob! I’m planning on reading these two for a challenge, but I don’t know which one to read first. Advice?

By: In Which My TBR List Grows Some More « A Striped Armchair

In Which My TBR List Grows Some More « A Striped Armchair — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:05:44 +0000

[...] of robaroundbooks completely sold me with his post History’s Greatest Travelogue?, which features The Travels of Ibn Buttatah and Travels With a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, [...]