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Mirabilia Descripta: The Wonders of the East (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series) by Jordanus Catalani; Henry Yule is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mirabilia Descripta: The Wonders of the East (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series) about?
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains the first English translation (in 1863) of a Latin manuscript written in about 1330 and published in France in 1839. Jordanus was a Dominican missionary to India, who became bishop of Columbum (probably a town on the Malabar coast). He recorded anything he thought noteworthy on his travels from the Mediterranean to India via Persia and back again, and his remarks on the climate, produce, people and customs of the countries he passed through are a valuable source of information.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jordanus Catalani; Henry Yule
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108010573
- Category
- nonfiction
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