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The Book of John Mandeville
Sir John Mandeville
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Description for The Book of John Mandeville
Book of John Mandeville Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 3H; HBJF; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 218 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. In addition to a fresh, vibrant translation--the first from the Middle French original since the fifteenth century—this edition of The Book of John Mandeville offers a succinct, broad-ranging Introduction to the work that touches on the question of authorship, the sources on which the text drew, and the transformation and reception of the work down to the present day.
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872209367
SKU
V9780872209367
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Ref
99-2
About Sir John Mandeville
Iain Macleod Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Medieval Studies, University of Victoria.
Reviews for The Book of John Mandeville
Honorable Mention Recipient, 2011 MLA Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work:The Book of John Mandeville, one of the most important medieval travel books, has been translated into English from the original Anglo-Norman French for the first time since the late fourteenth century. Iain Macleod Higgins's accurate, readable, and judiciously edited rendering now supersedes the modernizations of ... Read more