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Yes, the “Bibliographical Note” to Travels with a Tangerine outlines the story of the Defrémery and Sanguinetti French and Gibb English translations, as I did briefly in the other topic. And recommends the Arabic edition by Abdelhadi Tazi. For a bibliography of ... ... translation because it sounds tedious, but I would look in the bibliographies of The Adventures of Ibn Battuta or Travels with a Tangerine for their recommendations.
I don't know where my copies are, or I would do it for you.
Robert Comfort Me with Apples
The Berry Garden
The Tres Riches Heures of Jean Duc de Berry
Travels with a Tangerine
The Fig Eater ... ilverman
Perfect Figures by Bunny Crumpacker
Gumbo Tales by Sara Roahen
Bonjour Blanc by Ian Thomson
Travels with a Tangerine (and its sequel The Hall of a Thousand Columns) by Tim MacKintosh-Smith
The Longest Crawl by Ian Marchant
Rewind, Replay, Repeat by ... The Adventures of Ibn Battuta by Ross E. Dunn held my interest. I came to it through Travels with a Tangerine by Tim MacKintosh-Smith.
Robert ...
Land Benighted by Barbara Greene
Spy in the Vatican by Branko Bokun
Ulysses Found by Ernle Bradford
The Travels of Ibn Battutah ...
Bonjour Blanc by Ian Thomson I can enthusiastically recommend as a thorough portrait of Haiti.
I recently finished Travels with a Tangerine by Tim MacKintosh-Smith, after enjoying his book on Yemen a few years ago. Really glad this one has a sequel to look forward to: The Hall of a ... Travels with a Tangerine by Tim MacKintosh-Smith
More Ketchup than Salsa by Joe Cawley
Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie
Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall
Favas Can Be Fatal by Priscilla Royal
I finally finished my Rashid Khalidi book -- I've been in a bit of a reading slump. Three Cups of Tea and Travels With a Tangerine are both books I look forward to reading at some point soon.
In the meantime, I've dived into Vali Nasr's The Shia Revival, which is both interesting ... ... who are retracing a journey (e.g. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz and Travels With A Tangerine: From Morocco To Turkey In The Footsteps Of Islam's Greatest Traveler by Tim MacKintosh-Smith). #10
I've read Travels With A Tangerine and recommend it.
In Come, Tell Me How You Live Agatha Christie recounts her adventures in the Middle East during the 1930s while accompanying her archeologist husband Max Mallowan.
Today, while at the used outlet at our library, I picked up Wilfre ... 9: Coincidentally I just bought 'Passionate Nomad' today.
I also picked up 'Travels with a Tangerine' by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, 'Winter in Arabia' by Freya Stark, and 'Budge's Egypt'.
The perils of working in a bookstore ;-) I narrowly fended off buying a third Captain Sir Richard Burton B ... ... him company. He recommends it.
Your library has a fair bit of non-fiction - travel, bio, politics. In that vein:
Travels with a Tangerine by Tim MacIntosh-Smith is excellent. He follows in the footsteps of what he calls the Islamic Marco Polo, who traveled the known world in the ... ... tales like The Adventures of Antar are fairly easy to find in translation.
Ibn Battuta's writings are terrific, and Travels with a Tangerine is an excellent work that weaves in and out of it.
If you can lay your hands on a copy, The Fihrist of al-Nadi m is an intriguing and ... I like Travels with a Tangerine too, and can't wait to read the rest. Probably me favourite is William Dalrymple's From the Holy Mountain, with a simliar kind of theme to Tangerine but this time following a couple of Late Antiquity monks through the vanished world of the Christian Middle Eas ... Ooh I love love LOVE Travels with a Tangerine and I'm a great lover and collector of travel literature - this is one of the best I have ever read.
At work, I recently catalogued an 18th century (I think) copy of the Ibn Battutah travels, which was very, very cool. ... book-sale of books submitted in previous years. I was able to pick up some excellent reads including Killing Dragons, Travels With A Tangerine, Clear Waters Rising and Red Dust amongst others.
I am surprised that I am the only one who has Arved Fuchs's In Shackleton's Wake ...
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