Ibn Batuta

Hakluyt Society

Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb

Charles Fraser Beckingham

A. D. H. Bivar

The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354

Bernard Hamilton

This study makes an important contribution to the study of the Prester John legend and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in the field of medieval history and literature. The principal sources relating to Prester John are reprinted here for the first time in more than a century, together with a number of key modern articles on this topic. In addition, an international group of scholars has contributed six new studies which examine the legend in the context of Mongol history, Russian literature, the medieval Jewish accounts of the Ten Lost Tribes, the crusading movement, and the Portuguese voyages of exploration.

Charles Fraser Beckingham

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