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    Which book did John Mandeville plagiarize to write his fictional tale about pagans on the Isle of Bragman?

    Question #77910. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Mar 27 07 2:46 PM)


    zbeckabee

    		Odoric of Pordenone and his account of his visit to China.

    Franciscan friar and traveler, whose account of his journey to China enjoyed wide popularity and appears to have been plagiarized in the 14th-century English work The Voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville, Knight, generally known as Mandeville's Travels.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoric_of_Pordenone



    Mar 27 07, 4:18 PM

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