Mandeville

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Francis has lived in Wales for 25 years and his poetic version of the Welsh national epic The Mabinogi has been widely acclaimed. He has published six collections of poetry with Faber including Wing (2021), and edited W. S. Graham's New Collected Poems. His other work includes a collection of short stories and three novels. Klappentext Purporting to describe the circumnavigation of an English knight through Africa, India, and the Middle East in 1322, the narrative is a fantastical collection of sights: seas, islands, phoenixes, pyramids, rocks that enchant ships and apes that contain human souls, interwoven with geographical descriptions that are perfectly accurate. Mandeville by Matthew Francis is a fascinating collection of poems reworking the travels of the enigmatic medieval explorer Sir John Mandeville. Zusammenfassung Purporting to describe the circumnavigation of an English knight through Africa, India, and the Middle East in 1322, the narrative is a fantastical collection of sights: seas, islands, phoenixes, pyramids, rocks that enchant ships and apes that contain human souls, interwoven with geographical descriptions that are perfectly accurate.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Francis
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2008
• EAN: 9780571239276
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23927-6
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 6 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Exploration