The Travels of Ibn Battuta an encyclopedic source for Mucha's

an encyclopedic source for Mucha's style in every branch of decorative and applied art and one of the few books on design where even individual plates are sought after by collectors

African Violet

The nuclear atom

living prison

Wittgenstein

The Travels of Ibn Battuta an encyclopedic source for Mucha'sThe Arab equivalent of Marco Polo, Sheikh Ibn Battuta (1304 77) set out as a young man on a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. The only medieval traveler known to have visited the lands of every Muslim ruler of his time, Ibn Battuta was born into a family of highly respected religious judges and educated as a theologian. Leaving his native city of Tangier in 1326, he traveled over the next several years to East Africa,