[Casperin]

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf -- I was approached in an airport by a lovely old gentleman who essentially told me to read this book and insisted I take a photo of it so I wouldn't forget. Half a year later, I'm out of things to read and looking for a change (I never read historical fiction before) and gave it a shot. It has opened a world of a completely new genre for me.

[mikhailfranco]

Thank you, I had never heard of Leo Africanus.

But I would rather read his original work Cosmographia, rather than a fictionalized biography (same for Ibn Battuta).