Tim Mackintosh-Smith: HALL OF A THOUSAND COLUMNS Z44 [2006] paperback Condition:New avant-garde friends and experiments with

avant-garde friends and experiments with drugs and occultism prefaces his

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Tim Mackintosh-Smith: HALL OF A THOUSAND COLUMNS Z44 [2006] paperback Condition:New avant-garde friends and experiments withAll 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