The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight: Wherein is Set Down the Way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: As Also to the Lands of the Great - John Mandeville - Bøker - Gale Ecco, Print Editions - 9781171367277 - 23. juli 2010
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The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight: Wherein is Set Down the Way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: As Also to the Lands of the Great

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The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight: Wherein is Set Down the Way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem: As Also to the Lands of the Great

Publisher Marketing: 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. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++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 LibraryT100819Signatures: A-R{4} S .London: printed for R. Chiswell, B. Walford, M. Wotton, and G. Conyers, 1705. 135, [5]p.: ill.; 4 Contributor Bio:  Mandeville, John John Mandeville crossed the sea on Michaelmas Day 1322; had traversed by way of Turkey (Asia Minor), Armenia the Little (Cilicia) and the Great, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt upper and lower, Libya, great part of Ethiopia, Chaldea, Amazonia, India the Less, the Greater and the Middle, and many countries about India; had often been to Jerusalem, and had written in Romance as more generally understood than Latin. In the body of the work, we hear that he had been at Paris and Constantinople; had served the Sultan of Egypt a long time in his wars against the Bedouin, had been vainly offered by him a princely marriage and a great estate on condition of renouncing Christianity, and had left Egypt under Sultan Melech Madabron (al-Muzaffar Sayf-ad-Din Hajji I who reigned in 1346-1347); had been at Mount Sinai, and had visited the Holy Land with letters under the great seal of the sultan, which gave him extraordinary facilities; had been in Russia, Livonia, Krakow, Lithuania, "en roialme daresten" (? de Daresten or Silistra), and many other parts near Tartary, but not in Tartary itself; had drunk of the Well of Youth at Polombe (Quilon on the Malabar coast), and still seemed to feel the better; had taken astronomical observations on the way to Lamory (Sumatra), as well as in Brabant, Germany, Bohemia and still farther north; had been at an isle called Pathen in the Indian Ocean; had been at Cansay (Hangchow-fu) in China, and had served the emperor of China fifteen months against the king of Mann; had been among rocks of adamant in the Indian Ocean; had been through a haunted valley, which he places near "Milstorak" (i.e. Malasgird in Armenia); had been driven home against his will in 1357 by arthritic gout; and had written his book as a consolation for his "wretched rest." The paragraph which states that he had had his book confirmed at Rome by the Pope is an interpolation of the English version.

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Utgitt 23. juli 2010
ISBN13 9781171367277
Utgivere Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Genre Chronological Period > 18th Century
Antall sider 146
Mål 246 × 189 × 8 mm   ·   272 g

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