Captured at Nicopolis in 1396 as a teenager, Schiltberger served the Ottoman sultan, then Tamerlane, then a succession of Central Asian princes, and finally escaped home to Bavaria thirty-two years later. His account of Anatolia, Persia, Siberia and the Golden Horde is a unique medieval European record.
Thirty years a slave across Asia, written down on getting home. Download the free EPUB.