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Travels and Sir
* Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 14th century invented account of travels.
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.
Early in 1875 Giles prepared his diaries for publication under the title Geographic Travels in Central Australia, and on 13 March 1875, with the generous help of Sir Thomas Elder, he began his third expedition.
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.
" Blessed with as many lives as a cat ," his time with the Ojibwa and subsequent explorations are retold in his Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories between the years 1760 and 1776 ( published New York, 1809 ), which he dedicated to his friend Sir Joseph Banks.
** 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 )
* Sir Anthony Shirley-Sir Anthony Shirley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia
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 ).
* The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, John Mandeville
* Pouqueville, François, Travels in Epirus, Albania, Macedonia, and Thessaly ( London: printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co, 1820 ), an English denatured and truncated edition available on line
Swift had used Benjamin Tooke previously when publishing for Sir William Temple, he would use Tooke for both the fifth edition of the Tale ( 1710 ) and later works, and it was Tooke's successor, Benjamin Motte, who published Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
In 1607 Day produced, in conjunction with William Rowley and George Wilkins, The Travels of the Three English Brothers, which detailed the adventures of Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony and Robert Shirley.
Shirley wrote an account of his adventures, Sir Anthony Sherley: his Relation of his Travels into Persia ( 1613 ), the original manuscript of which is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.
See also The Three Brothers ; Travels and Adventures of Sir Anthony, Sir Robert and Sir Thomas Sherley in Persia, Russia, Turkey and Spain ( London, 1825 ); EP Shirley, The Sherley Brothers ( 1848 ), and the same writer's Stemmata Shirleiana ( 1841, again 1873 ).
" Jehan de Mandeville ", translated as " Sir John Mandeville ", is the name claimed by the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a book account of his supposed travels, which probably first appeared in Anglo-Norman French, and first circulated between 1357 and 1371.
The most recent scholarly work suggests that The Travels of Sir John Mandeville was “ the work of Jan de Langhe, a Fleming who wrote in Latin under the name Johannes Longus and in French as Jean le Long .” Jan de Langhe was born in Ypres early in the 1300s and by 1334 had become a Benedictine monk at the abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer which was about 20 miles from Calais.
* Sir John Barrow, Travels into the Interior of South Africa ( London, 1801 );
Sir Robert Naunton ( 1563 – 1635 ) mentions it in his book Travels in England, published sometime between 1628 and 1632: he calls Rye a " small English seaport "; shortly after his arrival he takes post-horses for London, travelling via Flimwell.
* Jean Chardin, ( 1643 – 1713 ), French jeweller and traveller, author of The Travels of Sir John Chardin

Travels and John
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 ".
* 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.
* Travels of John Interview – More Dangerous Than Julian Assange?
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.
), 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
* John Day, William Rowley, & George Wilkins – The Travels of the Three English Brothers
* Burckhardt, John Lewis, 1784-1817 ( 1822 ): Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Edition: reprint, Published by J. Murray, 668 pages.

Travels and Mandeville
The name " de Mandeville " might be suggested to de Bourgogne by that of his fellow-culprit Mangevilayn, and it is even possible that the two fled to England together, were in Egypt together, met again at Liège, and shared in the compilation of the Travels.
* The Nacumerians, in The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
Prominent historical and science texts began to be translated into English for the first time in the second half of the 14th century, including the Polychronicon and The Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
* John Mandeville or Jehan de Mandeville ( 14th century ), nom-de-plume of the compiler of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
During the Middle Ages, the Gates of Alexander story was included in travel literature such as the Travels of Marco Polo ( 1254 – 1324 AD ) and the Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
The Land of Darkness enjoyed popularity in fictional medieval travel literature such as the Alexander Romance and the Travels of Sir John Mandeville.
* The Land of Darkness in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville

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