The Hall of Thousand Columns - Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah (Broché)

Tim Mackintosh-Smith has already entranced armchair travellers with his tales of taking to the road, across the centuries, with Ibn Battutah, -the great Arab wanderer who from 1325 to 1355 visited most of the known world between Marocco and China, collecting a treasure of tales. Travels with a Tangerine left us on the eastern borders of the old Islamic lands : in this chapter of the epic journey. Mackintosh-Smith is led through the memories of a man who died ten lifetimes ago. He reveals an India far off the beaten path of Tak and Raj, where a dead Muslim poses as a Hindu deity. Jesus pop up in the pulpit of a mosque, and the rotten tooth of a mad sultan is revered as a saint. India was the jewel in IB's turban : nearly 700 years on, it sparkles again this book.