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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville has a good claim to having been perhaps the most popular book ...

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16.10 10 Sep 2020


The Travels of Sir John Mandeville


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16.10 10 Sep 2020


The Travels of Sir John Mandeville has a good claim to having been perhaps the most popular book in Medieval Europe.

It was essentially a guidebook for pilgrims visiting the Holy Land.

The only problem is that Mandeville had never been there. In fact, he probably wasn’t even a real person.

Dan Thurber is the Host of Bookworm History


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