Immediately popular when it first appeared around 1356, "The
Travels of Sir John Mandeville" became the standard account of the
East for several centuries?a work that went on to influence
luminaries as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci, Swift, and Coleridge.
Ostensibly written by an English knight, the "Travels" purport to
relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India, and China.
Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army and to
have journeyed to ?the lands beyond countries populated by
dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons, and pygmies. This translation
by the esteemed C.W.R.D. Moseley conveys the elegant style of the
original, making this an intriguing blend of fact and absurdity,
and offering wondrous insight into fourteenth- century conceptions
of the world.
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