The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

LibriVox recording of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville. (Translated by Alfred W. Pollard.) Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. This is an Elizabethan translation of a 14th century travelogue, allegedly composed by one Sir John Mandeville. According to the book, John de Mandeville crossed the sea in 1322 and travelled through Turkey, Tartary, Persia, Syria, Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Chaldea, Amazonia, India and many countries about India. In his day, he was considered the foremost travel authority, but much of the imaginative accounts were debunked during the