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Book The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages of That Renowned English Knight Sir John Mandeville to Which Is Added an Account of People of Odd Deformities All Very Delightful to the Reader

Download or read book The Foreign Travels and Dangerous Voyages of That Renowned English Knight Sir John Mandeville to Which Is Added an Account of People of Odd Deformities All Very Delightful to the Reader written by JOHN. MANDEVILLE and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T040021 [London]: Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard, [1785?]. 24p.; 12°

Book The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville

Download or read book The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville written by John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is a captivating medieval travelog attributed to the English knight and explorer, Sir John Mandeville. Written in the 14th century, the book recounts the supposed journeys and adventures of Mandeville across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The narrative takes readers on a fascinating expedition through exotic lands, describing encounters with mythical creatures, distant civilizations, and extraordinary marvels. Mandeville's accounts include vivid descriptions of the landscapes, customs, and religious practices of the places he claimed to have visited. This book continues to captivate readers with its blend of fact and fantasy, transporting them to a bygone era of exploration and wonder. Whether viewed as a work of imaginative fiction or a medieval travel account, the book remains a valuable testament to the curiosity and thirst for adventure that characterized the Age of Exploration.

Book The Foreign Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Download or read book The Foreign Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Foreign Travels of Sir John Mandeville etc A chapbook

Download or read book The Foreign Travels of Sir John Mandeville etc A chapbook written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville" which was written in Anglo-Norman French is believed to have first appeared sometime in the mid to late 14th century. It soon would be translated into many other languages and would subsequently be very popular in its time. While the identity of Sir John Mandeville is thought to possibly be based on a real historical figure the work seems to be largely one of fiction. "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville" depicts the wandering journey of an English knight to the holy land, the Middle East, the Far East, and lands beyond. While not as historically accurate as the earlier Marco Polo's "Travels," the work gained wide notoriety and is said to have influenced the explorer Christopher Columbus. A wildly fantastical tale of a medieval journeyman, "The Travels of Sir John Mandeville" is a read sure to bring out the explorer in all of us.

Book Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Download or read book Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by Sir John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Riddle and the Knight

Download or read book The Riddle and the Knight written by Giles Milton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part travelogue/part historical mystery about the most famous traveler--and chronicler-- in medieval Europe. Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe. Mandeville wrote a book about his voyage around the world that became a beacon that lit the way for the great expeditions of the Renaissance, and his exploits and adventures provided inspiration for writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Keats. By the nineteenth century however, his claims were largely discredited by academics. Giles Milton set off in the footsteps of Mandeville, in order to test his amazing claims, and to restore Mandeville to his rightful place in the literature of exploration. "Erudite, witty and adventurous" (The Mail on Sunday), The Riddle and the Knight is a brilliant piece of detective work.

Book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by John Mandeville and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential books of the medieval period, John Mandeville's fourteenth-century work was written, ostensibly, to encourage and instruct pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. A thorough compendium of medieval lore, the travel book proved to be a great success throughout Europe. (Among his alleged readers were Leonardo da Vinci and Christopher Columbus.) The Travels professes to relate Mandeville's experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India, and China--where he served in the Great Khan's army--followed by his journey to "the lands beyond," countries populated by "dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons, and pygmies." Five centuries after Mandeville recorded his observations in those distant lands, the volume's remarkably exacting accounts of events and geography were found to be probable fabrications. Nevertheless, the book's widespread popularity and influence make it essential to the study of medieval English literature. An engaging mix of fact and fantasy, enhanced with more than 100 rare woodcut illustrations, it has retained its place as one of the greatest and most entertaining works of early English vernacular prose.

Book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by John Mandeville and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in Modern Spelling; With Three Narratives, in Illustration of It, From Hakluyt's Navigations, Voyages Discoveries About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Download or read book The Travels of Sir John Mandeville written by John Mandeville and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to encourage and instruct pilgrims traveling to biblical lands, The Travels recounts Mandeville's experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India, China, and "the lands beyond." Five centuries passed before the remarkably exacting accounts of events and geography was found to be probable fabrications. By the standards of the 14th century, the writing style of the man who called himself Sir John Mandeville is so informal as to be nearly chummy: "He who wants to pass over the sea to Jerusalem, may go by many ways, both by sea and by land depending on the countries he comes from; many ways come to a single end. But do not think I shall tell of all the towns and cities and castles that men shall go by, for then I must make too long a tale of it." Historians remain skeptical as to whether the author really did journey to the Holy Land and Egypt, or hire himself out as a soldier to the Great Khan of China. Whatever the case, it is indisputable that he is one of the first modern travel writers, as we have come to know the genre, and that his book was considered authoritative in matters geographical throughout Europe--consulted by Leonardo da Vinci and Christopher Columbus alike.