The best and fairest land
Subtitle: images of China in medieval Europe
By: Nicholas Koss
Publisher: Bookman Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Taipei
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Description and travel
Table of contents: title: People from the land of silk: ancient Latin and Greek images of China; title: "Walls of silver and ramparts of Gold"; Cathay in John of Plano Carpini and William of Rubruck; title: "Excellence of manners ... Men of peace": Cathay and Manzi in Marco Polo; title: "Two thousand great cities ... All things needful for human subsistence": Manzi in Odoric of Pordenone; title: "Full of all manner of riches": Manzi in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville; title: Four versions of Manzi: Odoric and the Mandeville texts.