
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
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Narrated by:
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Esh Alladi
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By:
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Anthony Bale
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From the medieval souks of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the listener to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks.
Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East and the Antipodes, this is no ordinary travel guide. From profane pilgrim badges and Venetian laxatives to encounters with bandits and trysts with mysterious medieval witches, this book mixes fact and folklore to offer an entertaining encyclopaedia of wondrous stories and peoples.
Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the listener a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.
©2023 Anthony Bale (P)2023 Penguin AudioCritic reviews
Fantastic history and insights in a fascinating narrative.
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I wondered how the book would be organised. The author has gone for geographical chapters and within each chapter there are relevant themes and observations about travel and how it affects people. It all ties in nicely and seamlessly.
Most parts of the known world at that time are covered, although the main route is to Jerusalem and then to the silk road, so there is very little about North Africa or Northern Europe. Perhaps these places were less visited.
I would love to have had more about travellers from the East to Europe. There are some bits, but I guess that would need another book and sources may be limited.
The reader is good. Easy to listen to and quite fast-paced.
A great book if you love travel and history.
A fascinating history
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What a book!!
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The huge number of mispronunciations by the narrator in this one book is probably more than the sum total in nearly 800 Audible books that I have listened to in the last 12 years or so.
Mis-titled and So Disappointing
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