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Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, Volumes I-II (Hardcover, New edition)
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Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China, Volumes I-II (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Hakluyt Society, First Series
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Volume I: 'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the
Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the
Discovery of the Cape Route'. Containing the travels of Friar
Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from
missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-1338, in English
translation. With a list of 'illustrations from drawings by the
author'. The supplementary material includes the 1866 annual
report. Volume II: Contains contemporary notices of Cathay under
the Mongols, from Rashiduddin; Pegolotti's notices of the land
route to Cathay and of Asiatic trade in the fourteenth century;
Marignolli's recollections of eastern travel; Ibn Battuta's travels
in Bengal and China; the journey of Benedict Goes from Agra to
Cathay; all in English translation, with Latin and Italian texts of
Odoric's narrative. For a revised version of the whole work, see
Second Series 33, 37, 38, 41. This is a new print-on-demand
hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1866.
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