The Riddle and the Knight / (Record no. 22369)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01216 am a2200229 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 12258 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0340819456 |
| Terms of availability | 0.00 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0340819456 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780340819456 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 940 MIL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Milton, Giles |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Riddle and the Knight / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | In Search of Sir John Mandeville |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Allison & Busby |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2005 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 291p paperback |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | China |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Cyprus |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Jerusalem |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Manuscript |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Syria |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | 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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