The Travels of Friar Odoric
The Travels of Friar Odoric

Author: Odorico (da Pordenone)

Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13:

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"Setting off only twenty years after Marco Polo's historic trip to the East, Odoric was the only religious traveler to the East whose voyage was recorded, making his account one of unparalleled importance for scholars and historians. Interestingly, Odoric noted the religious and cultural customs of the places he visited, treating their practices with tolerance, respect, and curiosity. He frequently took pains to tell of spectacular things - mountains of salt, impenetrable deserts, mice as big as dogs, trees that produced bread, magic fish, sensational pearls, gigantic tortoises, men with faces of dogs, hens covered in wool, and women equipped with fangs - making this fantastic reading even for those with casual interest.".

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Author: John Mandeville

Publisher: Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

Published: 2020-01-27

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1647980542

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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville is the chronicle of the alleged Sir John Mandeville, an explorer. His travels were first published in the late 14th century, and influenced many subsequent explorers such as Christopher Columbus.

The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1200 CE to 1800 CE
The Constructions of the East in Western Travel Narratives, 1200 CE to 1800 CE

Author: Radhika Seshan

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2019-09-11

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1000713059

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This book investigates how the idea of the ‘east’ emerged in western travel narratives between the 13th and the 18th centuries. Sifting through critical travel narratives — real and imagined — it locates the changing geography as well as the perceptions surrounding India. The author presents how historical stereotypes interacted with a burgeoning demand for travelogues during this period and have fed into the way we think about Asia in general, and India in particular. From the mythical travels of Prester John to the enigmatic ‘adventures’ of Marco Polo, from the fraught voyages of Johannes Plano de Carpini to the missionary zeal of Friar Odoric of Pordenone and William of Rubruquis, this volume traces the history of the ‘Orient’ as it was understood by the west. A major intervention in understanding how popular narratives shape history, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, medieval history, history of travel, world literature, postcolonial studies, and general readers interested in travel narratives.

The Book of John Mandeville
The Book of John Mandeville

Author: Sir John Mandeville

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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The Book of John Mandeville has tended to be neglected by modern teachers and scholars, yet this intriguing and copious work has much to offer the student of medieval literature, history, and culture. [It] was a contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims, and Brahmins. The Book first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century and by the next century could be found in an extraordinary range of European languages: not only Latin, French, German, English, and Italian, but also Czech, Danish, and Irish. Its wide readership is also attested by the two hundred fifty to three hundred medieval manuscripts that still survive today. Chaucer borrowed from it, as did the Gawain-poet in the Middle English Cleanness, and its popularity continued long after the Middle Ages.

Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China
Cathay and the Way Thither. Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China

Author: Henri Cordier

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1317169352

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Volume I followed (Second Series 38). A revised edition of First Series 36 (1866) and 37 (1866) above, whose title page was followed. The appendix contains a Latin and an Italian text of Friar Odoric's travels in the early fourteenth century. Continued in Second Series 37 and 41 below. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1913.

India in Early Modern English Travel Writings
India in Early Modern English Travel Writings

Author: Rita Banerjee

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9004448268

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Comparing the variant ideologies of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European travelogues, India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives concerns a relatively neglected area of study and often overlooked writers. Relating the narratives to contemporary ideas and beliefs, Rita Banerjee argues that travel writers, many of them avid Protestants, seek to negativize India by constructing her in opposition to Europe, the supposed norm, by deliberately erasing affinities and indulging in the politics of disavowal. However, some travelogues show a neutral stance by dispassionate ethnographic reporting, indicating a growing empirical trend. Yet others, influenced by the Enlightenment ideas of diversity, demonstrate tolerance of alien practices and, occasionally, acceptance of the superior rationality of the other's customs.