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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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