The Book of Marvels and Travels | 
For today‘s #scarathlondailyprompts post I‘m reading Sir John Mandeville for my masters, a medieval travel narrative full of Creatures!
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For today‘s #scarathlondailyprompts post I‘m reading Sir John Mandeville for my masters, a medieval travel narrative full of Creatures!
#scarathlon2022 #teamslaughter @Clwojick +6
It was so fascinating to read a book that treated bananas and elephants as as fantastical as people with their faces in their chests, and which was so popularly read across medieval and renaissance Europe. Likewise, it amazes me that some armchair adventurer in 14th century England/France could so accurately describe elephants, if not so 'long apples' (hehe). #booktober #fullofadventure @RealLifeReading
