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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Por: Tipo de material: TextoIdioma: en Editor: Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1997Descripción: 1 online resource : multiple file formatsTipo de contenido:
  • text
Tipo de medio:
  • computer
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  • online resource
Títulos uniformes:
  • Itinerarium. English
Tema(s): Clasificación LoC:
  • G
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  • Transcribed from the 1900 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price
Resumen: "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville" by Sir John Mandeville is a travelogue written between 1357 and 1371 that claims to chronicle an Englishman's journey across the Near East to India and China. Blending fact with fantasy, this extraordinarily popular medieval work drew from various sources including Odoric of Pordenone and Armenian monk Hetoum. Though "Sir John Mandeville" was likely an invented author and many travels described are unreliable or fantastical, the book profoundly influenced explorers like Christopher Columbus, serving as a curious mix of pilgrimage guide and exotic wonder tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandeville%27s_Travels

Itinerarium

Release date is 1997-01-01

Transcribed from the 1900 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price

"The Travels of Sir John Mandeville" by Sir John Mandeville is a travelogue written between 1357 and 1371 that claims to chronicle an Englishman's journey across the Near East to India and China. Blending fact with fantasy, this extraordinarily popular medieval work drew from various sources including Odoric of Pordenone and Armenian monk Hetoum. Though "Sir John Mandeville" was likely an invented author and many travels described are unreliable or fantastical, the book profoundly influenced explorers like Christopher Columbus, serving as a curious mix of pilgrimage guide and exotic wonder tale. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: Macmillan and Co.,, 1900

Translated from Anglo-Norman

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