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Page xxxii
... Rubruck's hopes of conversion and con- sequent peace.1 We are able with the scanty notices at our disposal to gain but slight knowledge of the route followed by Friar Andrew . We know only that he started from Antioch . It seems likely ...
... Rubruck's hopes of conversion and con- sequent peace.1 We are able with the scanty notices at our disposal to gain but slight knowledge of the route followed by Friar Andrew . We know only that he started from Antioch . It seems likely ...
Page xxxv
... Rubruck had avail- able as a preparation for his great journey of over ten thousand miles through Asia . I should have liked to be able to say something of the traveller himself , but we know absolutely nothing about him save his own ...
... Rubruck had avail- able as a preparation for his great journey of over ten thousand miles through Asia . I should have liked to be able to say something of the traveller himself , but we know absolutely nothing about him save his own ...
Page 139
... Rubruck ( Ency . Brit . , xxi , 47 ) , he accepts the view that it was the Ili , as does F. M. Schmidt ( 202 ) . From here our traveller probably followed the great military road up the broad valley , in which are the feeders of the ...
... Rubruck ( Ency . Brit . , xxi , 47 ) , he accepts the view that it was the Ili , as does F. M. Schmidt ( 202 ) . From here our traveller probably followed the great military road up the broad valley , in which are the feeders of the ...
Contents
PREFACE | ix |
ITINERARY OF FRIAR William of RUBRUCK | xlv |
THE JOURNEY OF FRIAR JOHN OF PIAN DE CARPINE | 1 |
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