TY - BOOK AU - Letts,Malcolm TI - Mandeville's Travels: Texts and Translations, Volumes I and II T2 - Hakluyt Society, Second Ser. SN - 9781409417064 AV - G370.M2 -- M36 1953eb U1 - 910.4 PY - 2011/// CY - Farnham PB - Routledge KW - Geography, Medieval KW - Mandeville, John, -- Sir KW - Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800 KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- CONTENTS -- VOLUME I -- PREFACE -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE COSMOGRAPHICAL IDEAS OF MANDEVILLE'S DAY -- NOTE ON THE EGERTON TEXT -- THE EGERTON TEXT -- PROLOGUE -- 1. THE WAY TO CONSTANTINOPLE -- 2. THE CROSS AND CROWN OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST -- 3. OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE FAITH OF THE GREEKS -- 4. OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND THE DAUGHTER OF YPOCRAS -- 5. OF CYPRUS, THE WAY FROM CYPRUS TO JERUSALEM, AND THE FOSSE OF SAND -- 6. OF THE NAMES OF THE SULTANS AND THE TOWER OF BABYLON -- 7. OF EGYPT, CAIRO, THE PHOENIX, THE INCUBATORS OF CHICKENS, ADAM'S APPLES AND PHARAOH'S FIGS, THE BALSAM GARDEN, AND THE GARNERS OF JOSEPH -- 8. OF SICILLY, MT SINAL, AND THE CHURCH OF ST. KATHERINE -- 9. OF THE DESERT, THE BEDOUINS, THE DRY TREE, AND HOW ROSES FIRST CAME INTO THE WORLD, BETHLEHAM -- 10. OF JERUSALEM AND THE HOLY PLACES -- 11. OF THE SULTAN'S LETTERS, AND TEMPLE, KING HEROD -- MT SION, PROBATICA PISCINA, NATATORIUM SILOE, TORRENS CEDRON, JERICHO -- 12. OF THE DEAD SEA, JORDAN, THE HEAD OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND THE USAGES OF THE SAMARITANS -- 13. OF GALILEE, ANTICHRIST, NAZARETH, MT TABOR, THE AGE OF OUR LADY, THE DAY OF DOOM, AND THE CUSTOMS OF THE JACOBITES, SYRIANS, AND THE USAGES OF GEORGIANS -- 14. OF DAMASCUS, THE RIVER SABATORY, OF THE THREE WAYS TO JERUSALEM, AND OF TARTART -- 15. OF THE SARACENS AND THIER LAW, TJE COLLOQUY WITH THE SULTAN, MAHOMET AND HIS LAW -- 16. OF ALBANIA, LIBYA, THE CASTLE OF THE SPARROWHAWK, AND NOAH'S ARK -- 17. OF THE LAND OF JOB, THE ARRAY OF THE CHALDEANS, THE AMAZONS, ETHOPIA, AND THE VIRTUE OF THE DIAMOND -- 18. OF THE ISLES OF INDIA, THE STITCHED SHIPS, OF IDOLS AND SIMULACRES, THE PEPPER FOREST, AND THE WELL OF YOUTH, THE WORSHIP OF THE OX -- 19. OF ST. THOMAS' DOOMS, THE SACRIFICE TO IDOLS, THE JUGGERNAUT CAR -- 20. OF THE ISLE OF LAMARY AND THE SHAPE OF THE EARTH; 21. OF THE KING OF JAVA, OF TREES BEARING MEAL, HONEY, AND VENOM, OF THE ISLE OF CALANOK, THE MIRACLE OF THE FISHES, GIANT SNAILS, DOG-FACED PEOPLE, CROCODILES, AND OTHER MARVELS -- 22. OF CANNIBALS, MONSTERS, THE CITY OF CASSAY AND THE PIGMIES -- 23. OF THE GREAT CHAN OF CATHAY AND HIS COURT -- 24. OF THE NAMES OF THE GREAT CHAN AND HIS SEAL -- 25. OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE GREAT CHAN'S COURT, HIS FEASTS, AND HOW HE RIDES ABROAD -- 26. OF THE MANNERS OF THE TARTARS, THE GREAT CHAN'S DEATH AND BURIAL, AND THE ELECTION OF HIS SUCCESSOR -- 27. OF THARSE, AND THE LANDS AND KINGDOMS ABOUT CATHAY -- 28. OF PERSIA, AND THE LAND OF DARKNESS, TURKEY AND CHALDEA -- 29. OF OTHER COUNTRIES AND LANDS ABOUT CATHAY, THE VEGTABLE LAMB, THE ENCLOSED PEOPLE, AND THE GRIFFINS -- 30. OF PRESTER JOHN, THE LOADSTONE ROCKS, THE GRAVELLY SEA, THE EPMEMBRAL TREES, AND THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN -- 31. OF THE VALLEY PERILOUS, GIANTS, STRANGE MARRIAGE CUSTOMS, BASILISKS, CROCODILES, GIRAFFES, AND OTHER MATTERS -- 32. OF THE BRAHMANS, THE TREES OF THE SUN AND THE MOON, AND WHY PRESTER JOHN IS SO CALLED -- 33. OF GOLD-DIGGING ANTS. PARADISE AND THE FOUR RIVERS OF PARADISE -- 34. OF THE CUSTOMS OF CERTAIN PEOPLES, RYBOTH [TIBBET], AND THE RICH CHINAMAN: THE EPILOGUE -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- I. SHIELD OF SIR JOHN MANDEVILLE, PEREGRINATOR -- MAPS -- THE HOLY LAND -- SKETCH MAP, SHOWING THE EXTENT OF MANDEVILLE'S TRAVELS UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=2004587 ER -