Maggie's Farm

Ibn Battuta went everywhere he could. Adventure after adventure, and he wrote most of it down. Makes Marco Polo ( a contemporary) seem like a piker:

Whereas Marco Polo was rather tight-lipped about sex, Ibn Battutah seems to have copulated his way across the then-known world with hundreds of slave girls, concubines, and temporary “wives.” He also left more than a few offspring in his wake. His trip lasted 29 years and was three times the length of Marco Polo’s. He writes about not only what he actually experienced, but also includes gossip, rumors, and legends about the things and the people he encountered. Some of it is rather horrifying...