ibn battuta ws probably the most famous of the early Muslim travellers.On foot and on animal back, he covered about 120,000 kilometers--- the equivalent of three times round the equator.he travelled from spain to china and from central africa to the Russian Steppes.His accounts tell us much about the muslim world of the 14th century.
He studied law,like the rest of his family,but when he was twenty-one he set off on a