Born and died in Tangier, Ibn Battûta had, between the two, a life rich in adventures, discoveries and travels. Al-Rihla, literally The Journey, it is precisely under this title that the book retracing the journey which engraved his name in the history of Islam and the world is known. “Travel trains youth,” is attributed to Montaigne. What can we say about the young Ibn Battûta who, just in his twenties, leaving Tangier, was trained by a journey of some 120,000 km covered in twenty-nine years.

More than a reading, Héritage editions offer you a real journey through time and space, in the 14th century, from al-Andalus to China and from the Mâlî Empire to the territories of ancient Bulgaria. the Volga, in the company of the man who is undoubtedly the most famous explorer of Islamic civilization.