Mirabilia Descripta, the Wonders of the East, by Friar Jordanus: Of the Order of Preachers and Bishop of Columbum in India the Greater, (Circa 1330)

ISBN-13: 9781409412977 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 112 str.

Yule, Henry

Opis

Translated from the Latin Original, as published at Paris in 1839, in the Recueil de Voyages et de mémoires, of the Society of Geography, with the Addition of a Commentary'. The supplementary material includes the 1863 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1863.

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PREFACE, CHAPTER 1. [THE MEDITERRANEAN.], CHAPTER II. CONCERNING ARMENIA., CHAPTER ??I. CONCERNING THE REALM OF PERSIA., CHAPTER IV. CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS., CHAPTER V. CONCERNING INDIA THE GREATER., CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING INDIA TERTIA (S. E. AFRICA)., CHAPTER VII. CONCERNING THE GREATER ARABIA., CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THE GREAT TARTAR., CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING CALDEA., CHAPTER ?. CONCERNING THE LAND OF ARAN, CHAPTER XI. CONCERNING THE LAND OF MOGAN., CHAPTER XII. CONCERNING THE CASPIAN HILLS., CHAPTER XIII. CONCERNING GEORGIANA., CHAPTER XIV. CONCERNING THE DISTANCES OF COUNTRIES., CHAPTER XV. CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF CHIOS., CHAPTER XVI. CONCERNING TURKEY., Index to the Mirabilia of Jordanus and the Commentary Thereon

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Henry Yule