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?

(Muhammad) Ibn Battuta was one of the great travellers and travel writers of pre-modern times. His extraordinary journeys, which spanned three decades, took him to almost the entirety of the Islam ...