85 Mandeville, Part Two
As the Travels of Sire John Mandeville move away from the familiar and the Holy Land, they get progressively more bizarre. The laws of convention and even reality seem to break down as Mandeville encounters cannibals, dog people, weaponized elephants, […]
An episode of the The Weird History Podcast podcast, hosted by Joe Streckert, titled "85 Mandeville, Part Two" was published on June 16, 2016 and runs 22 minutes.
June 16, 2016 ·22m · The Weird History Podcast
Summary
As the Travels of Sire John Mandeville move away from the familiar and the Holy Land, they get progressively more bizarre. The laws of convention and even reality seem to break down as Mandeville encounters cannibals, dog people, weaponized elephants, and headless humans who have faces on their chest. In one particularly striking passage Mandeville says that not only is the world round, but that one can circumnavigate it, and he also characterizes the Kingdom of the Great Khan as perhaps the most advanced nation in the entire world. The book ends with description of the Earthly Paradise, the one spot on the globe that Mandeville, despite all of his experience, cannot reach. Theme music: Cowboy Surfer by the Vivisectors
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