Cathay and the Way Thither 2 Volume Paperback Set: Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108010382)

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. First published in 1866, this is the two-volume compilation edited by Colonel Henry Yule on contacts with China before the discovery of sea routes to the east. Yule's detailed introductory essay surveys the history of European contacts with the east, beginning with the Greek geographers and going up to the thirteenth century. He then presents the narratives of the Franciscan Odoric of Pordenone and other missionary friars in the fourteenth century.

Author: Henry Yule
ISBN-10: 1108010385
ISBN-13: 9781108010382
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2010
Pages: 995
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.87lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.51w x 2.24d