Ibn Battuta

Born in Tangier, Morocco, in 1304, 'Ibn Battuta' is widely celebrated as one of the greatest travelers and explorers in human history. Raised in a family of Islamic legal scholars, he received a traditional education that prepared him for a quiet, respectable life as a judge. However, at the age of twenty-one, he set out on a solitary religious pilgrimage to Mecca—a journey that was supposed to take a little over a y...