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

Giles Milton

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Description:In 1322, Sir John Mandeville left England on an extraordinary thirty-four year voyage. He returned and wrote a book claiming it was possible to circumnavigate the globe.For centuries none doubted Sir John, and many regarded him, not Chaucer, as the father of English prose. But in the nineteenth century, sceptics questioned his voyage and suspected that he never left England at all. They said that The Travels was a work of imaginative fiction.The Riddle and the Knight unearths clues about Mandeville's voyage and reveals the The Travels is built upon a series of riddles which have, until now, remained unsolved.The Riddle and the Knight draws on Sir John Mandeville's Travels and the accounts of contemporary adventurers to bring the hitherto unexplored areas of the medieval world vividly to life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller. To get started finding The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 031242129X

Description: In 1322, Sir John Mandeville left England on an extraordinary thirty-four year voyage. He returned and wrote a book claiming it was possible to circumnavigate the globe.For centuries none doubted Sir John, and many regarded him, not Chaucer, as the father of English prose. But in the nineteenth century, sceptics questioned his voyage and suspected that he never left England at all. They said that The Travels was a work of imaginative fiction.The Riddle and the Knight unearths clues about Mandeville's voyage and reveals the The Travels is built upon a series of riddles which have, until now, remained unsolved.The Riddle and the Knight draws on Sir John Mandeville's Travels and the accounts of contemporary adventurers to bring the hitherto unexplored areas of the medieval world vividly to life.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller. To get started finding The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveller, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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