An account of the author's adventures during an 18-month journey "beyond forbidden frontiers" in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the Ayatollahs, finally entering Afghanistan.

Ibn Battutah was a traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for twenty nine years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. This book describes the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey. It also compares the contemporary Muslim world with the past.

History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? This title tells of the lives of 13 losers , who achieved great heights in their lifetimes, only then to meet crushing defeats.

Their history, culture, and character.

The great English novel about Egypt, which is also the great Egyptian novel about England.