Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Cathay and the Way Thither, Vol. 4: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China; Ibn Batuta, Benedict Goes, Index
He entered on his wanderings at the age of twenty one (14th June, and did not close them till he was hard on fifty-one (in January, his career thus coinciding in time pretty exactly with that of Sir John Mandeville (1322 a traveller the compass of whose journeys would be deemed to equal or surpass the Moor's, if we could but believe them to be as genuine3.
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