The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255 by Willem Van Ruysbroeck, Peter Jackson, David O. Morgan

The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck: His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Möngke, 1253-1255

Willem Van Ruysbroeck, Peter Jackson, David O. Morgan

328 pages • first pub 1255 (view editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous mysterious slow-paced
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Prior to the 13th century the horizons of Western Christians extended no further than the principalities of what is now European Russia and the Islamic powers of the near East. Beyond lay a world of which they had only the haziest impressions. The...

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