Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354 - Picture Books

Title: Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354 - Picture Books
Author: James Rumford
ISBN: 9780618432332
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Ages: 6 to 8

James Rumford, himself a world traveler, has retold Ibn Battuta's story in words and pictures, adding the element of ancient Arab maps - maps as colorful and evocative as a Persian miniature, as intricate and mysterious as a tiled Moroccan wall. Into this arabesque of pictures and maps is woven the story not just of a traveler in a world long gone but of a man on his journey through life.