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Mitchell, R. J

The Spring Voyage : The Jerusalem Pilgrimage in 1458

Reader's Union/ John Murray, 1965

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Year of publication
1965
Place of printing
London
Author
Mitchell, R. J
Publishers
Reader's Union/ John Murray
Edition
Book Club Edition
Keyword
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS TRAVEL MIDDLE EAST CRETE RHODES, CYPRUS HOLY LAND JERUSALEM MOUNT SINAI
Cover description
Near Fine
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

In the Spring of 1458 two hundred travellers embarked on two Venetian galleys for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. It included twenty-nine Englishmen,.seventeen Italians, an Austrian and a Dutchman. This detailed account of their adventures is based the diaries of six of those pilgrims, As well as accounts all the religious sites like Jerusalem and the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai it includes descriptions of Crete, Rhodes and Cyprus. 213p.+plates map bibliography. index