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Voyages and Travels by Sir John Mandeville

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and The Journal Of Friar Odoric. Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in the lands beyond' countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and Pygmies. Although Marco Polo's slightly earlier narrative ultimately proved more factually accurate, Mandeville's was widely known, used by Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Frobisher, and inspiring writers as diverse as Swift, Defoe and Coleridge. This is the only travel book that Leonardo da Vinci is known to have possessed, Columbus consulted it and there was a copy on board Frobisher's ship as she lay off Boffin Bay.

Features;

• Great Explorers Series
• Publisher Heron Books, London; Undated c.1970
• Maroon Faux Leather Hardback, 384 pp
• Illustrated in B&W
• Size 205 x 125mm, 575g

Condition: Very Good – No Dust Jacket (as issued), Fading To Title, No Inscriptions, Very Good Copy

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