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traceyreads2's review
adventurous
informative
medium-paced
4.25
Thank you to Netgalley for a digital ARC of this book that is being published on April 23rd
When I first saw this title, I thought it would be about modes of transportation and the ways of travel in the middle ages and while you get that, it's so much more.
The author does a fantastic job of transporting you to the middle ages and telling these stories from actual diaries of people, informing you of their reasons for travelling, who was able to travel, where they travelled and their purpose of travel.
Some of the chapters I found much more interesting than others, but each reader is going to have a different experience than the last. It was quite the journey and I'm really glad I read this book. I definitely learned a lot and it brought up some interesting conversation around the dinner table.
pinkcowlandreads's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
3.75
thebookcoyote's review
informative
medium-paced
3.5
TW/CW: Violence, religious bigotry, executions, talk of illness and death
REVIEW: I received a free copy of this audiobook from NetGalley and am voluntarily writing an honest review.
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a history book that describes the different ways that people traveled during the Middle Ages, and the challenges and dangers that such travel involved. While the book is overwhelmingly Eurocentric, it does touch a bit on the travels of people from China and eastern Asia as well.
I enjoyed this book, for the most part. Since travel was overwhelmingly religious for Europeans in the Middle Ages, this biggest part of this book details the route that people took from Western Europe to the Holy Lands, and touches on the stops along the way. I found this to be interesting, but I think a little more diversity would have been interesting to read as well.
The narrator (who has an English accent!) is very good. He sounds interested in the subject matter, and it doesn’t just sound like a college lecture. He is easy to understand and brings the book to life nicely.