Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka by Ameena Hussein (Shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize) cookery destroyed our confidence and shattered

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Chasing Tall Tales and Mystics: Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka by Ameena Hussein (Shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize) cookery destroyed our confidence and shattered(Shortlisted for the Gratiaen Prize) The fabled Moroccan scholar Ibn Battuta is reputed to have travelled further through the medieval world than any other explorer, including Marco Polo. When Ameena Hussein sees a grimy street sign in Puttalam bearing his name, it precipitates a quest of her own, tracking Ibn Battuta's possible trajectory in Lanka or Sarandib as he knew it. From the pearl rich not western coast, through Sri Pada known as the Mount of