The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler

Milton, Giles

ISBN 10: 0374249970 / ISBN 13: 9780374249977

Edité par Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 2001

A propos de cet article

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001. First American Edition. 8vo. Hardcover binding, 230 pp. The history of the great 14th-century traveler. New in new dustjacket.

N° de réf. du vendeur 012449

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler
• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
• Date de parution: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374249970
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374249977
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First American Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Medieval Studies
  • History

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Synopsis

Book by Milton Giles

Présentation de l'éditeur

In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well.

His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was heralded as the most important book of the Middle Ages as Mandeville claimed his voyage proved it was possible to circumnavigate the globe.

In the nineteenth century sceptics questioned his voyage, and even doubted he had left England.

THE RIDDLE AND THE KNIGHT sets out to discover whether Mandeville really could have made his voyage or whether, as is claimed, THE TRAVELS was a work of imaginative fiction. Bestselling historian Giles Milton unearths clues about the journey and reveals that THE TRAVELS is built upon a series of riddles which have, until now, remained unsolved.