The Man Who Walked Across The World - 1 - Wanderlust DOCUMENTARY: The Man Who Walked Across The World On: BBC 4 Screened (repeat): Thursday 13th September 2007 Time: 21:00 to 22:00 A series of documentary travelogues in which Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows in the footsteps of 14th Century Moroccan scholar Ibn Battutah, who covered 75,000 miles, 40 countries and three continents in a 30-year odyssey. He was islam’s and perhaps the world’s greates traveller 1 - Beginning in north Africa, Tim visits Battutah’s birthplace of Tangier in Morocco, and stumbles on a performance of medieval trance music. In Egypt, he goes to a remote village where Battutah had an astonishing prophetic dream and visits the world’s oldest university in Cairo.
