A fictive traveler's guide to the East, both Near and Far, The Book
of John Mandeville was a late--medieval best seller, more popular
in its day than Marco Polo's Travels. In addition to a fresh,
vibrant translation--the first from the Middle French original
since the fifteenth century--this edition of The Book of John
Mandeville offers a succinct, broad-ranging Introduction to the
work that touches on the question of authorship, the sources on
which the text drew, and the transformation and reception of the
work down to the present day.