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The foreign travels and dangerous voyages of that renowned English knight Sir John Mandeville. Wherein He gives an Account of Remote Kingdoms, Countries, Rivers, Castles, and Giants of a prodigious Height and Strength. Together with the People called Pigmies, very small and of a low Stature. To which is added, an account of people of odd deformities, some without Heads. - Also dark inchanted Wildernesses, where are fiery Dragons, Griffins, and many wonderful Beasts of Prey, in the Country of Prester-John - All very delightful to the reader.
Mandeville, John, Sir
Literature and Language
English
Printed and sold in Bow-Church-Yard
[London]
1785
13
27
847

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