On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Holden McGroin wrote:
Thanks for the info. I've really wanted to read Ibn Batuta for a while now so perhaps this is the golden opportunity to finally get a PG version in motion. So, does anybody have any experience ordering copies of whole books from the British Library? I'd love to do it (obviously, depending on price) if it's at all possible :-)
Hmmm... you may not need to go that far afield. It looks as if there is a reprint in the University Library in my city (Victoria, British Columbia) and given that it was published in New York, I'd expect you could find it in some American cities... Here's a full record: Author/Creator: Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377. Other Author/Creator(s): Lee, Samuel, 1783-1852. Title: The travels of Ibn Batuta. Translated from the abridged Arabic manuscript copies, preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge. With notes illustrative of the history, geography, botany, antiquities, occurring throughout the work, by Samuel Lee. Uniform Title: Tuhfat al-nuzzar English. 1971 , _________________________________________________________________ Database: University of Victoria Libraries Location: McPherson Library Call Number: G370 I23 Number of Items: 1 Status: In Library Subject(s): Voyages and travels Africa--Description and travel--To 1900 Asia--Description and travel Published: New York, B. Franklin [1971] Description: xviii, 243 p. 24 cm. Series: Burt Franklin research & source works series, 817 Geography and discovery, 13 Notes: Reprint of the 1829 ed. Translation of Tuhfat al-nuzzar. ISBN: 0833720511