The Tartars were also in contrast to the concept of Prester John, who may have been Prester Chan and, in Ludolphus's account, chased out of Asia by the Tartars and, in John Herbert's Travels, was Abyssinian.

He admitted that he was directly influenced by Purchas's Pilgrimage, but there are additional strong literary connections to other works, including John Milton's Paradise Lost, Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Chatterton's African Eclogues, William Bartram's Travels through North and South Carolina, Thomas Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Plato's Phaedrus and Ion, Maurice's The History of Hindostan, and Heliodorus's Aethiopian History.

Engraving in British cartographer John Hamilton Moore's 1778 book Voyages and Travels labeled " Natives of the Caribee, feasting on human flesh ".

* Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 14th century invented account of travels.

* John Angelo Jackson, Adventure Travels in the Himalaya Chapter 17, Everest and the Elusive Snowman, 1954 updated material, Indus Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 81-7387-175-2.

In works such as The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and Historia Trium Regum by John of Hildesheim, Prester John's domain tends to regain its fantastic aspects and finds itself located not on the steppes of Central Asia, but back in India proper, or some other exotic locale.

In John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, he learns an important lesson in a little restaurant just outside of Bangor.

Detroit Lakes is referred to in the author John Steinbeck's book, Travels with Charley, as he and his dog Charley drove through the upper midwestern United States.

These earlier accounts clearly inspired the popular medieval fantasy The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, which also mentions the Fountain of Youth as located at the foot of a mountain outside Polombe ( modern Kollam ) in India.

), John Leland's Itinerary: Travels in Tudor England, Gloucester: Sutton, 1993 ; revised edn.

Characters in the author's world could board a ship and find themselves on a fantastic island, as Jonathan Swift does in Gulliver's Travels or in the 1949 novel Silverlock by John Myers Myers, or be sucked up into a tornado and land in Oz.

He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his membership in the Scriblerus Club ( where he inspired both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The Dunciad ), and for inventing the figure of John Bull.

* John Steinbeck – Travels With Charley: In Search of America

* Travels through Stuart Britain: the adventures of John Taylor, the water poet

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a 14th best-seller, associated the Jews with Gog and Magog, saying the nation trapped behind the Gates of Alexander comprised the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.

** The Travels of Sir John Mandeville ( anonymous )

* Jean Chardin-Voyages de monsieur le chevalier Chardin en Perse et autres lieux de l ' orient ( The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient )

* John Day, William Rowley, & George Wilkins – The Travels of the Three English Brothers

In 1839 he edited Sir John Mandeville's Travels ; in 1842 published an Account of the European manuscripts in the Chetham Library, besides a newly discovered metrical romance of the 18th century ( Torrent of Portugal ).

* Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784-1817 ( 1822 ): Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Edition: reprint, Published by J. Murray, 668 pages.

* The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, John Mandeville

In 1788 Jean Jacques Barthelemy ( 1716 – 95 ), a highly esteemed classical scholar and Jesuit, published The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, about a young Scythian descended from Anacharsis.

Image: Karl Bodmer Travels in America ( 7 ). jpg | Cave-in-rock, view on the Ohio ( circa 1832 ): aquatint by Karl Bodmer from the book " Maximilian, Prince of Wied ’ s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832 – 1834 "

A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of modern science itself, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was one of the first true science fantasy works, together with Voltaire's Micromégas ( 1752 ) and Johannes Kepler's Somnium ( 1620 – 1630 ).

* Bernier, Francois, Travels in the Mogal Empire ( 1656 – 68 ), revised by V. A.

During the 1670s, the Frenchman Jean Chardin visited Yerevan and gave a description of the city in his Travels of Cavalier Chardin in Transcaucasia in 1672 – 1673.

* May 4 – The beginning of the fictional Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 ).

On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India ( A. D. 629 – 645 ).

Niagara Falls ( circa 1832 ): aquatint by Karl Bodmer from the book " Maximilian, Prince of Wied ’ s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832 – 1834 "

’’ New-Harmony on the Wabash ’’ ( circa 1832 ): aquatint by Karl Bodmer from " Maximilian, Prince of Wied ’ s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832 – 1834 "

Probably his most important work, published posthumously, is his Travels in New England and New York ( 4 vols., 1821 – 1822 ).

" Fort Pierre on the Missouri ": aquatint by Karl Bodmer from the book " Maximilian, Prince of Wied ’ s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832 – 1834 " As of the census of 2010, there were 2, 078 people, 893 households, and 586 families residing in the town.

* Caves in the Desert: Travels in China – 1988

In his book: " Travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone ", he visited several places in today's Indonesia: Sumatra, Java, and Banjarmasin in Borneo, between 1318 – 1330.

Barth wrote and published accounts of his travels simultaneously in English and German, under the title Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord-und Zentralafrika ( Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa ; 1857 – 1858, 5 vols., approx.

* Henry Barth ( 1857-1858 ), Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the Auspices of H. B. M .’ s Government, in the Years 1849 – 1855 ... 5 volumes.

* King Mu of Zhou ( reigned 977 BCE – 922 BCE ), who according to the apocryphal Travels of King Mu once played a game of Liubo with a hermit that lasted three days.

* Graham Greene – Travels with My Aunt

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* Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied: Maximilian Prince of Wied ’ s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832 – 1834.

* Reuben Gold Thwaites: Early Western Travels, 1748 – 1846 ( vol.

* Reuben Gold Thwaites: Early Western Travels, 1748 – 1846.

* Collection at Old Book Art All 81 aquatint illustrations and map from Maximilian Prince of Wied ’ s Travels in the Interior of North America, during the years 1832 – 1834