Taprobane

One of the most influential books to appear in the fourteenth century was ostensibly written by Sir John Mandeville, who compiled an account of his “travels” throughout Turkey, Armenia, Tartary. It is likely that “John Mandeville” was the pen name of a Liege physician, Jean de Bourgogne, or Jehan a la Barbe. The book—in fact a compilation drawn from a number of other travel accounts—first

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