Friar Jordanus, a Dominican missionary who became bishop of Columbum (Quilon) in southern India around 1329, set down what he had seen and heard of the East. He describes Armenia and Persia, India the Less and India the Greater, their peoples, beasts, plants and customs, and stranger lands known only by report. Sir Henry Yule’s translation adds extensive notes.
A vivid medieval traveller’s record, edited for the Hakluyt Society. Download the free EPUB.