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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

di Sir John Mandeville · 36 parti · about 7 hours di lettura

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Eccolo, spiegato come se avessi 10 anni:

Molto tempo fa, un cavaliere inglese disse di aver lasciato casa nel 1322 e di aver viaggiato per anni attraverso la Terra Santa, l'Egitto, l'India e la lontana Catai, e questo è il suo libro. Racconta luoghi santi, grandi khan, le meraviglie della terra del Prete Gianni, e creature ai confini del mondo. Il testo qui è l'edizione Macmillan del 1900. Leggilo come lo leggevano i lettori medievali, con meraviglia, e goditi uno dei libri di viaggio più antichi in inglese.

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Capitoli

Bibliographical Note9 min Prologue6 min Chapter 1: To teach you the Way out of England to Constantinople3 min Chapter 2: Of the Cross and the Crown of our Lord Jesu Christ7 min Chapter 3: Of the City of Constantinople, and of the Faith of Greeks8 min Chapter 4: Of the Way from Constantinople to Jerusalem6 min Chapter 5: Of diversities in Cyprus9 min Chapter 6: Of many Names of Soldans, and of the Tower of Babylon14 min Chapter 7: Of the Country of Egypt12 min Chapter 8: Of the Isle of Sicily14 min Chapter 9: Of the Desert between the Church of Saint Catherine and Jerusalem11 min Chapter 10: Of the Pilgrimages in Jerusalem, and of the Holy Places thereabout10 min Chapter 11: Of the Temple of our Lord25 min Chapter 12: Of the Dead Sea13 min Chapter 13: Of the Province of Galilee, and where Antichrist shall be born15 min Chapter 14: Of the City of Damascus15 min Chapter 15: Of the Customs of Saracens, and of their Law16 min Chapter 16: Of the lands of Albania and of Libia11 min Chapter 17: Of the land of Job13 min Chapter 18: Of the customs of Isles about Ind14 min Chapter 19: Of the Dooms made by St. Thomas’s hand7 min Chapter 20: Of the evil customs used in the Isle of Lamary12 min Chapter 21: Of the Palace of the King of the Isle of Java16 min Chapter 22: How men know by the Idol, if the sick shall die or not15 min Chapter 23: Of the great Chan of Cathay11 min Chapter 24: Wherefore he is clept the great Chan13 min Chapter 25: Of the Governance of the great Chan’s Court, and when he maketh solemn feasts20 min Chapter 26: Of the Law and the Customs of the Tartarians dwelling in Cathay11 min Chapter 27: Of the Realm of Tharse and the Lands and Kingdoms towards the Septentrional Parts, in coming down from the land of Cathay3 min Chapter 28: The Emperor of Persia, and of the Land of Darkness8 min Chapter 29: Of the Countries and Isles that be beyond the Land of Cathay7 min Chapter 30: Of the Royal Estate of Prester John15 min Chapter 31: Of the Devil’s Head in the Valley Perilous14 min Chapter 32: Of the goodness of the folk of the Isle of Bragman11 min Chapter 33: Of the Hills of Gold that Pismires keep8 min Chapter 34: Of the Customs of Kings and other that dwell in the Isles coasting to Prester John’s Land14 min