TY  - BOOK
AU  - Milton, Giles
TI  - The Riddle and the Knight / 
SN  - 0340819456
U1  - 940 MIL 
PY  - 2005///
PB  - Allison & Busby  
KW  - China
KW  - Cyprus
KW  - History
KW  - Jerusalem
KW  - Manuscript
KW  - Syria
N1  - 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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