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Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’
To continue our summer of travel with Close Readings, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at the medieval bestseller The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The fictional traveller’s fantastical descriptions of differen...
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Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’ is an episode from The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books. To continue our summer of travel with Close Readings, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at the medieval be...
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Published Aug 2, 2026, 62:52 long, audio available.
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