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Travels with a Tangerine

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Travels with a Tangerine Book PDF

Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 0330491148

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'A gripping and accomplished travel book . . . [it] stands out for its integrity and intelligence' Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for twenty nine years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include an Islamic Butlin's in the Egyptian desert, Assassin castles in Syria, the Kuria Maria Islands in the Arabian Sea and some of the greatest cities of Medeival Islam. He also cleverly compares the contemporary Muslim world with the past. 'Mackintosh-Smith slips effortlessly between our world and that of the fourteenth century. In doing so, he has created a gripping and accomplished travel book... We will be lucky if there is a better one published this year' Sunday Times 'An immensely engaging book...Subversive good humour without relentless jokiness; and a descriptive eye capable of sketching complext details in a few telling lines' Daily Telegraph

Travels with a Tangerine

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781848546769

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Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic. Captivated by this indefatigable man, award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out on his own eventful journey, retracing the Moroccan's eccentric trip from Tangier to Constantinople. Tim proves himself a perfect companion to this distant traveller, and the result is an amazing blend of personalities, history and contemporary observation.

Travels with a Tangerine

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Travels with a Tangerine Book PDF

Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780812971644

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In 1325, the great Arab traveler Ibn Battutah set out from his native Tangier in North Africa on pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned nearly thirty years later, he had seen most of the known world, covering three times the distance allegedly traveled by the great Venetian explorer Marco Polo—some 75,000 miles in all. Captivated by Ibn Battutah’s account of his journey, the Arabic scholar and award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out to follow in the peripatetic Moroccan’s footsteps. Traversing Egyptian deserts and remote islands in the Arabian Sea, visiting castles in Syria and innumerable souks in medieval Islam’s great cities, Mackintosh-Smith sought clues to Ibn Battutah’s life and times, encountering the ghost of “IB” in everything from place names (in Tangier alone, a hotel, street, airport, and ferry bear IB’s name), to dietary staples to an Arabic online dating service— and introducing us to a world of unimaginable wonders. By necessity, Mackintosh-Smith’s journey may have cut some corners (“I only wish I had the odd thirty years to spare, and Ibn Battutah’s enviable knack of extracting large amounts of cash, robes and slaves from compliant rulers.”) But in this wry, evocative, and uniquely engaging travelogue, he spares no effort in giving readers an unforgettable glimpse into both the present-day and fourteenth-century Islamic worlds.

Hall of a Thousand Columns

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781848546974

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All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India. Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed he visited most of the known world between Morocco and China. Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith retraces one leg of the Moroccan's journey - the dizzy ladders and terrifying snakes of his Indian career as a judge and a hermit, courtier and prisoner, ambassador and castaway. From the plains of Hindustan to the plateaux of the Deccan and the lost ports of Malabar, the author reveals an India far off the beaten path of Taj and Raj. Ibn Battutah left India on a snake, stripped to his underpants by pirates; but he took away a treasure of tales as rich as any in the history of travel. Back home they said the treasure was a fake. Mackintosh-Smith proves the sceptics wrong. India is a jewel in the turban of the Prince of Travellers. Here it is, glittering, grotesque but genuine, a fitting ornament for his 700th birthday.

Arabs

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Arabs Book PDF

Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300180282

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A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia. Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments--from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad's use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic--have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today's politically fractured post-Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.

Travels with a Tangerine

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781848546769

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Ibn Battutah set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on the pilgrimage to Mecca. By the time he returned twenty-nine years later, he had visited most of the known world, travelling three times the distance Marco Polo covered. Spiritual backpacker, social climber, temporary hermit and failed ambassador, he braved brigands, blisters and his own prejudices. The outcome was a monumental travel classic. Captivated by this indefatigable man, award-winning travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith set out on his own eventful journey, retracing the Moroccan's eccentric trip from Tangier to Constantinople. Tim proves himself a perfect companion to this distant traveller, and the result is an amazing blend of personalities, history and contemporary observation.

Yemen

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Yemen Book PDF

Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781848546967

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Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.

Tangerine

Edward Bloor
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Author : Edward Bloor
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152057803

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12-year-old Paul who is visually impaired starts to play soccer for his school, and begins to remember the incident that lost him his sight.

Yemen

Tim Mackintosh-Smith,Martin Yeoman
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Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith,Martin Yeoman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Yemen (Republic)
ISBN : 0719597404

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Our ideas of the Arabian Peninusula have been hijacked: by images of the desert, by oil, by the Gulf War. But there is another Arabia. For the Classical geographers Yemen was a fabulous land where flying serpents guarded sacred incense groves. Medieval Arab visitors told of disappearing islands and menstruating mountains. Vita Sackville-West found Aden 'precisely the most repulsive corner of the world'. Arguably the most fascinating but least known country in the Arab world, Yemen has a way of attracting comment that ranges from the superficial to the wildly fictitious. In Yemen: Travels in Dictionary Land, Tim Mackintosh-Smith writes with an intimacy and depth of knowledge gained through over twenty years among the Yemenis. He is a travelling companion of the best sort - erudite, witty and eccentric. Crossing mountain, desert, ocean and three millennia of history, he portrays hyrax hunters and dhow skippers, a noseless regicide, and a sword-wielding tyrant with a passion for Heinz Russian salad. Yet even the ordinary Yemenis are extraordinary: their family tree goes back to Noah and is rooted in a land which, in the words of a contemporary poet, has become the dictionary of its people. Every page of this book is dashed - like the land it describes - with the marvellous.

Landfalls

Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Author : Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781848544468

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For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands, torrid Indian Ocean ports and dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan sand-sea. His zigzag itinerary across time and space leads from Zanzibar to the Alhambra (via the Maldives, Sri Lanka, China, Mauritania and Guinea) and to a climactic conclusion to his quest for the man he calls 'IB' - a man who out-travelled Marco Polo by a factor of three, who spent his days with saints and sultans and his nights with an intercontinental string of slave-concubines. Tim's journey is a search for survivals from IB's world - material, human, spiritual, edible - however, when your fellow traveller has a 700-year head start, familiar notions don't always work.

Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists: Changing Patterns of Travel to the Middle East from Medieval to Modern Times

Paul Starkey,Janet Starkey
Pious Pilgrims Discerning Travellers Curious Tourists Changing Patterns of Travel to the Middle East from Medieval to Modern Times Book PDF

Author : Paul Starkey,Janet Starkey
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781789697537

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Pious Pilgrims, Discerning Travellers, Curious Tourists: Changing Patterns of Travel to the Middle East from Medieval to Modern Times by Paul Starkey,Janet Starkey Pdf

This volume comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) held in York in July 2019, which together will provide the reader with a fascinating introduction to travel in and to the Middle East over more than a thousand years.

Very California

Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Very California Book PDF

Author : Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781616202996

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Very California by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler Pdf

A fisherman on the Santa Monica Pier. The vineyards of Napa Valley. Surfers in Malibu. An Indian village in Yosemite and the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset. Artist Diana Gessler captures the color and character of our third largest and most populous state. In lively watercolors, sketches, and stories, Gessler shares her adventures on the road, driving from north to south--Sonoma to San Diego and beyond. She and her husband, Paul (designated driver and food lover), stop when curiosity or hunger seizes them. With pen and brush, Gessler works on the spot, bringing to life the cities, towns, and countrysides as well as the details that make them special. A great horned owl. A local farm stand. A woman making tortillas on a sidewalk cart. A bunkhouse in the redwoods. Crab traps along the bay. Her intimate journal is filled with colorful people, beaches, flowers, architecture, animals, trails, memorable meals, and movie stars (at least the gates in front of their houses). Very California is organized by region, and each chapter opens with a map and driving route of the area. Peppered throughout are amusing tidbits about all the things that make California so very California. Diana Gessler has created a memento for tourists and an enchanting book for those who appreciate the pleasures of the West Coast.

Travels with Herodotus

Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307548238

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From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.

Green Kitchen Travels

David Frenkiel,Luise Vindahl
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Author : David Frenkiel,Luise Vindahl
Publisher : Hardie Grant Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781743582725

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Green Kitchen Travels by David Frenkiel,Luise Vindahl Pdf

Delicious, nutritious and healthy vegetarian and vegan food, inspired by flavors from around the world, from the Green Kitchen Stories family. The Green Kitchen Stories family David, Luise and their children are a family who love to travel. Hungry to see and taste more of the world, they embarked on an around-the-world trip with their seven-month-year-old. Start the day with indulgent almond pumpkin waffles from San Francisco, tuck into a raw beansprout pad thai from Thailand for lunch, and a Sri Lankan vegetable curry for supper. With easy to find ingredients and simple instructions, these recipes are sure to be a success. With stunning photography and food styling, as well as personal anecdotes and images from the authors’ travels, Green Kitchen Travels shares modern and inspiring vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free recipes for all appetites.

Under the Tangerine Tree

Esther Bandy
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Author : Esther Bandy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798985469301

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Twelve-year-old Angie Mangione lives with her parents and her five-year-old brother, Joey, in New York City in 1963. After Papa is shot, Mama moves with Angie and Joey to Granny's house on a country lake in Florida. How can Angie cope with missing Papa, moving to Florida, being the new girl at school, and living with her angry teenage cousin at Granny's house? Will Angie and Joey be able to survive the mysterious danger that lurks in the lake? With all the changes in Angie's life, will she ever be happy again?