Ibn Battuta (1304-1369 AD) was a Moroccan explorer and scholar who was among the most well-traveled men recorded in the annals of the Middle Ages. Over the course of his life, his adventures, which he recorded in his travelogue The Rihla, took him as far afield as Mali in West Africa, the Swahili town of Kilwa on the coast of Tanzania to the south, and the Indies and even China to the east. He is thought to have traveled more miles than any other explorer in the pre-modern era, with the Chinese sailor Zheng He coming up in second place and the Italian Marco Polo at third.