Medieval pilgrims were among the boldest travellers, but their own records are archaic and forbidding, so Boulting retells four of them. The Chinese monk Hiuen-Tsiang crosses to seventh-century India, the Englishman Sæwulf reaches crusader Palestine in 1102, Ibn Batûta serves the extravagant Sultan of Delhi, and Varthema of Bologna ventures into Arabia and the East.
A readable introduction to four great travel narratives, East and West, for anyone curious about the medieval world on the move. Download the free EPUB.