The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th CenturyStudie over leven en werk van de Arabische ontdekkingsreiziger Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Ibn Baṭūtah (1304-1368/9). |
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... sail down the coast of Morocco , bound for India two centuries too soon . " It was also after 1275 that Genoese merchants began sailing northwestward from the strait around the great bulge of Iberia and into the waters of the North ...
... sail down the coast of Morocco , bound for India two centuries too soon . " It was also after 1275 that Genoese merchants began sailing northwestward from the strait around the great bulge of Iberia and into the waters of the North ...
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... sail , that gracefully curved , wing - like form that brings to Western minds all the images of Sindbad and the ... sail was taken aback , that is , it was pushed against the mast . The lateen , on the other hand , was a fore - and - aft ...
... sail , that gracefully curved , wing - like form that brings to Western minds all the images of Sindbad and the ... sail was taken aback , that is , it was pushed against the mast . The lateen , on the other hand , was a fore - and - aft ...
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... sail in almost any direction except into the eye of the wind . The Indian Ocean dhow was not , however , in total ... sail and spar . When wind conditions changed , the sail was never reefed aloft . Rather the yard was hauled down , the ...
... sail in almost any direction except into the eye of the wind . The Indian Ocean dhow was not , however , in total ... sail and spar . When wind conditions changed , the sail was never reefed aloft . Rather the yard was hauled down , the ...
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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 1989 |
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 2004 |
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century Ross E. Dunn Limited preview - 2005 |
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