[PDF.87ff] The Book of Marvels and Travels (Oxford World's Classics)

The Book of Marvels and Travels (Oxford World's Classics)

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 | #192956 in Books |  imusti |  2012-12-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.10 x.70 x7.70l,.39 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

 | Oxford University Press USA

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||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Surprisingly modern edition of foundational literary text|By Rachel D.|This book was probably the preeminent travel narrative for centuries, and it was surprising to see just how relevant it remains. This edition is eminently readable, with useful notes to illuminate how surprisingly knowledgeable the Middle Ages was about the East. Of course, much shows a fantastical ignorance| |Bale shows a lightness of touch in translation, which remains close to the syntax of the Middle English while avoiding archaism Bale's introduction offers a pithy and elegant overview of current scholarship on the nature of the text. --Kim M. Phillips, Studies

In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. Written in the fourteenth century, the Book is a captivating blend of fact and fantasy, an extraordinary travel narrative that offers some revealing and unexpected attitudes towards other races and religions. It was immensely popular, and numbered among its readers ...

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