The Riddle and the Knight /
Milton, Giles
The Riddle and the Knight / In Search of Sir John Mandeville - Allison & Busby 2005 - 291p paperback
In 1322, Sir John Mandeville left England on a thirty-four year pilgrimage. He returned and wrote a book claiming it was possible to circumnavigate the globe. For centuries none doubted Sir John, many regarding him, not Chaucer, as the father of English literature. In the nineteenth century, sceptics questioned his voyage, and suspected that he never left England at all, and that The Travels was a work of imaginative fiction. In The Riddle and the Knight, bestselling historian Giles Milton unearths clues about Mandeville's journey and reveals that The Travels is built upon a series of riddles which have, until now, remained unsolved.
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China
Cyprus
History
Jerusalem
Manuscript
Syria
940 MIL
The Riddle and the Knight / In Search of Sir John Mandeville - Allison & Busby 2005 - 291p paperback
In 1322, Sir John Mandeville left England on a thirty-four year pilgrimage. He returned and wrote a book claiming it was possible to circumnavigate the globe. For centuries none doubted Sir John, many regarding him, not Chaucer, as the father of English literature. In the nineteenth century, sceptics questioned his voyage, and suspected that he never left England at all, and that The Travels was a work of imaginative fiction. In The Riddle and the Knight, bestselling historian Giles Milton unearths clues about Mandeville's journey and reveals that The Travels is built upon a series of riddles which have, until now, remained unsolved.
0340819456 0.00 0340819456 9780340819456
China
Cyprus
History
Jerusalem
Manuscript
Syria
940 MIL