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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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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.

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Pages:: 230 pages

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Edition:: First, First Edition

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ISBN10:: 031242129X

ISBN13:: 9780312421298

kindle Asin:: B00FCRBF5U

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

Giles Milton

3.66/5 (411 ratings)

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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.

Format:

Pages:: 230 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: First, First Edition

Language:

ISBN10:: 031242129X

ISBN13:: 9780312421298

kindle Asin:: B00FCRBF5U

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