Life for people in the Middle Ages contained many difficulties that we can only imagine today. With their lack of technology and limited knowledge of the wider world, Medieval Europe.
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His book, known as The Travels, inspired Christopher Columbus and every peculiar detail from far-off lands was widely believed for centuries. But was the medieval knight turned explorer actually a fraudulent fantasist or rampant plagiarist? Writer Giles Milton goes looking for the real Sir John Mandeville.