The 'Sir John Mandeville' Page
Works of Mandeville
Travels. Originally written in French. See Dover reprint ( 1964 ) of A. W. Pollard modernized edition ( 1901 ), which contains related travel records from Hakluyt as well as a number of old woodcuts, from a 15th century German edition of Mandeville, illustrating strange places and peoples. Another modernized text is that by Malcolm Letts for the Hakluyt Society, two volumes, 1953. Also see the Penguin edition (1983 ), translated with an introduction by C. W. R. D. Moseley.
Medieval Sourcebook: Mandeville on Prester John. Chapter 30 of the above, on line.
About Mandeville
Josephine Waters Bennett, The Rediscovery of Sir John Mandeville. MLA , 1954.
Malcolm Letts, Sir John Mandeville: The Man and His Book. Batchworth , 1949.
A Prester John Bibliography. Titles in English and other languages.
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