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100 1 _aMandeville, John, Sir
240 1 0 _aItinerarium. English
245 1 4 _aThe Travels of Sir John Mandeville
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c1997
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandeville%27s_Travels
500 _aItinerarium
500 _aRelease date is 1997-01-01
508 _aTranscribed from the 1900 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMacmillan and Co.,, 1900
546 _aTranslated from Anglo-Norman
653 _aVoyages and travels -- Early works to 1800
653 _aMandeville, John, Sir -- Travel
653 _aGeography, Medieval
653 _aPalestine -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
653 _aOrient -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/782
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