Voyages and travels of Sir John Mandeville. This book, "Voyages and travels", by John Mandeville, Arthur Layard, is a replication of a book originally published before 1899. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Voyages and travels of Sir John Mandeville. This book, "Voyages and travels", by John Mandeville, Arthur Layard, is a replication of a book originally published before 1899. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
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Edition:
One of the World's Greatest books series/Aldine edition
Publisher:
D. Appleton and Company
Published:
1899
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13469936122
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Seller's Description:
Good. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes illustrations. xxi, 202 This also contains a Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jacques W. Redway. This is bound with Eothen or Traces of Travel brought Home from the East by ALexander William Kinglake. This also has a Critical and Biographical Introduction by Jacques W. Redway, 228 pages. From Wikipedia: "Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a book account of his supposed travels, which probably first appeared in Anglo-Norman French, and first circulated between 1357 and 1371. By aid of translations into many other languages it acquired extraordinary popularity. Despite the extremely unreliable and often fantastical nature of the travels it describes, it was used as a work of reference Christopher Columbus, for example, was heavily influenced by both this work and Marco Polo's earlier Il Milione. Also from Wikipedia: "Alexander William Kinglake (5 August 1809 2 January 1891) was an English travel writer and historian. He was born near Taunton, Somerset and educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. [1] He was called to the Bar in 1837, and built up a thriving legal practice, which in 1856 he abandoned in order to devote himself to literature and public life. His first literary venture had been Eothen; or Traces of travel brought home from the East, (London: J. Ollivier, 1844), a very popular work of Eastern travel, apparently first published anonymously, in which he described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington. Elliot Warburton said it evoked "the East itself in vital actual reality" and it was instantly successful. However, his magnum opus was his Invasion of the Crimea, in 8 volumes, published from 1863 to 1887 by Blackwood, Edinburgh, one of the most effective works of its class. It has been accused of being too favourable to Lord Raglan, and unduly hostile to Napoleon III, for whom the author had an extreme aversion. The town of Kinglake in Victoria, Australia, and the adjacent national park are named after him. A Whig, Kinglake was elected at the 1857 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MP) for Bridgwater, having unsuccessfully contested the seat in 1852. He was returned at next two general elections, but the result of the 1868 general election in Bridgwater was voided on petition on 26 February 1869. No by-election was held, and after a Royal Commission found that there had extensive corruption, the town was disenfranchised in 1870."
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Good. 1901 Hardcover. Includes 2 titles in one volume, "Mandeville's Voyages and Travels" (202 pages) by Sir John Mandeville and edited by Arthur Layard, and Kinglake's Eothen" (228 pages) by Alexander William Kinglake. Aldine Edition. Ex-Library. Text is clean. Binding is strong. B & W illustrations with tissue. Rough cut pages, gilt page tops. Inside hinges are cracked but not detached. Green cloth cover with paper title box on spine, corners & edges are lightly rubbed & bumped. U.
