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Shop amongst our popular books, including 13, Le Lapidaire Du Quatorzième Siècle, The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville And The Translation Of The New Testament and more from john mandeville (sir.). The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was written in approximately 1357 and is an account of Sir John Mandeville’s 30-year odyssey throughout Europe, North Africa, the Far East, and Arabia. Seymour’s volume gives the fullest account of the printing history of Mandeville’s Book. xiv–xv. Books at Indigo.ca. Warner, p. xxix.

The 14th century travel book and geography, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville provides readers with a fantastical tale of a man’s (supposed) journey from England to the farthest edges of the world. The book described strange places and fantastic countries that didn’t exist, but the writer declared that they were real. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was what we would now have called a "best-selling book" during the Middle Ages. The book was written during the mid 14th Century, a period when Europeans were becoming increasingly interested in what lay beyond the confines of world in which they lived. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was written in approximately 1357 and is an account of Sir John Mandeville’s 30-year odyssey throughout Europe, North Africa, the Far East, and Arabia. Sir John de Mandeville, who spent 34 years on an extended pilgrimage tour of the near east and beyond, and wrote them up in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville on his return.

Buy john mandeville (sir.) 4 Sir Thomas Browne considered Mandeville a liar; see Letts, Sir John Mandeville, p. 36. 3 Preface to Johnson’s Dictionary, cited by Seymour, Sir John Mandeville, p. 1. Sir John Mandeville Sir John Mandeville is the name given to an unknown writer who published a book of travels: ”Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville”. 6 Buke of John Maundeuill, ed. p. 169 Michael J. Bennett: 'The strong 'I, John Mandeville, knight, although I am unworthy, who was born in England in the town of St Albans and passed the sea the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ 1332' p.44 'I, John Mandeville, ate of them, and so believe it, for it is true.' The Travels was originally written in French and because of its immense popularity was translated into all major European languages, of which three hundred survive today.

His account became a Medieval best seller. 5 Buke of John Maundeuill, ed. Warner, pp. The Travels was originally written in French and because of its immense popularity was translated into all major European languages, of which three hundred survive today. In it he claimed to have circumnavigated the globe.