After China, Ibn Battuta went to Sardinia and Fez, arriving back home in Tangier in 1349 just as the Black Death was wreaking havoc in Europe and North Africa. Not content to stay home ...

Ibn Battuta. Travel was not easy in the 14th century, but the Moroccan explorer was tough and determined: at various times he was imprisoned, sentenced to death, beaten and left for dead ...

Ibn Battuta was different ... Battuta went on to work as a judge in Morocco until his death in the late 1360s. He remains one of the world’s greatest explorers. DM/ ML ...

OLLIE: Who shall we look up today? FATIMA: My grandmother told me about this amazing explorer, Ibn Battuta. He was a Moroccan explorer from way, way back; the 1300s, I think. Can we look him up?