A student in Jaipur reads an excerpt from a fourteenth-century book of travels. The writer recalls leaving his birthplace on a Thursday. He set out alone, with no fellow-traveller and no caravan whose party he might join. He writes that an overmastering impulse and a long-cherished desire drove him to visit illustrious sanctuaries, so he left his dear ones and forsook his home as birds forsake their nests. He adds that he was twenty-two years old at that time. The student wants to find out more about this journey.
Identify the birthplace from which the writer of this excerpt set out.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Tangier
The excerpt is from Ibn Battuta's Rihla. He writes of his departure from Tangier, my birthplace, at the age of twenty-two.
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