Batuta

Guillermo Francella, a marvelous actor from Argentina, is the slippery-smart soccer scout Batuta.

New 'Star Trek': A Splendid Enterprise 2009

Guillermo Francella, a marvelous actor from Argentina, is the slippery-smart soccer scout Batuta.

Virtuoso performances in 'The Soloist' 2009

(In his capacity as philosophical narrator, Batuta traces soccer's roots to pre-Colombian games that used a severed head for a ball.)

Virtuoso performances in 'The Soloist' 2009

(In his capacity as philosophical narrator, Batuta traces soccer's roots to pre-Colombian games that used a severed head for a ball.)

New 'Star Trek': A Splendid Enterprise 2009

Corridor meanders through the lives of a bunch of confused urban youngsters — Digital Dutta, the north Kolkata man torn between Karl Marx and H1-B Visa; Brighu, a compulsive collector and a contemporary version of Ibn Batuta; Shintu, newly married and searching for the ultimate aphrodisiac; and D.V.D. Murthy, a malodorous forensic expert with a penchant for Keats.

Boing Boing 2004

Ibn Batuta the traveller, and celebrated in the histories and romances of the Moors.

The Alhambra 2002

Ibn Batuta and other Arabic writers have much to say about the Assassins or Mulahids, as they call them.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

Batuta and Marco Polo give us interesting details.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

Batuta now hurried from the country, took a junk to Sumatra, thence to Calicut and by Ormuz home to Tangier, where he arrived in 1348.

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

Ibn Batuta says it was ten stages from Kandahar on the way to Herat.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela