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November 4, 2026 - Ibn Battuta: The Traveller Who Saw the World, Florence Nightingale: The Lady with the Lamp
Ibn Battuta left Tangier in 1325 for a pilgrimage of a few months and stayed on the road for twenty four years, judging in Delhi, sailing to the Maldives, walking through plague-struck Damascus, and crossing the Sahara to Timbuktu. Then Florence Nightingale walked the night wards of Scutari with a lamp, attacked the filth and disorder killing her soldiers, and used statistics to prove that preventable disease, not battle, was the great killer of the Crimean War. Inspirational true stories and emotional life stories: human kindness, curiosity, courage, and lessons in life about paying…
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