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A TRAVEL GUIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES - ANTHONY BAL...

A delightfully captivating journey across the medieval world  seen through the eyes of those
who travelled across it. History readers will love this gift!    'Rich and wonderful . . . This
is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer  'A joyful  erudite book . . . A
global Middle Ages for our times' Jerry Brotton  _____________________   A delightfully
captivating journey across the medieval world  seen through the eyes of those who travelled
across it   From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz  to the mysterious island of Caldihe  where
sheep were said to grow on trees  Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the
Middle Ages   inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous
wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars  spies and saints  from western
Europe to the Far East  the Antipodes  and the ends of the world  this is no ordinary travel
guide  containing everything from profane pilgrim badges  Venetian laxatives and flying coffins
to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.  Using previously untranslated
contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey  Iceland  Armenia  north Africa  and
Russia  A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between
real and imagined places  offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how
medieval people understood their world. _____________________   'Masterful  panoramic 
beautifully written and vividly imagined . . . a book to be savoured' Dr Helen Castor  author
of Blood and Roses    'An enthralling journey into the past and across the world . . . this
book takes us to barely imaginable places - but the most remarkable thing we find may be
ourselves' Seb Falk  author of The Light Ages

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