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“charles de mandeville”

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  • The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

    by John Mandeville ...
    Translated by Charles Moseley ...
    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 travelled in 'the lands beyond' - countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and Pygmies. Although Marco Polo's slightly earlier narrative ultimately proved more factually accurate, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Chronicles of the First Crusade

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  • Ancient Mesopotamia

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  • The Crusades

    A Reader, Second Edition

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  • The Book of Marvels and Travels

    by John Mandeville ...
    Translated by Anthony Bale ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into Asia, and the many wonderful and monstrous peoples and practices in the East. He tells us about the Sultan in Cairo, the Great Khan in China, and the mythical Christian prince ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Dictionary

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    Translated by Theodore Besterman ...
    Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. One of the masterpieces of the Enlightenment, this enormously influential work of sardonic wit - more a collection of essays arranged ... Read more

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  • A History of Ethiopia: Volume II (Routledge Revivals)

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    by E. A. Wallis Budge ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
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  • A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

    by Voltaire, Nicholas Cronk ...
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  • A History of Ethiopia: Volume I (Routledge Revivals)

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    by E. A. Wallis Budge ...
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    This, the first volume of Sir E. A. Wallis Budge’s The History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, first published in 1928, presents an account of Ethiopian history from the earliest legendary and mythic records up until the death of King Lebna Dengel in 1540.Using a vast range of sources – Greek and Roman reports, Biblical passages, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Ethiopian chronicles – an enthralling ... Read more

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