Johannes Schiltberger
Auteur van The bondage and travels of Johann Schiltberger : a native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427
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But after a while he gets more into describing the various countries and customs he lived among. Little factoids about pelicans; a vivid description of a marble palace as seeming to one who's never been there before as if the stone is all covered in water; a list of all the holy sites in Jerusalem followed (with barely a period for breath) by a description of how to recognise real basalm grown in Egypt; several chapters on Islam, and on the Greek Orthodox church, and the Armenian church; and then abruptly he manages to escape and recites his itinerary on the way home.
Half the book is fulsome notes by a few layers of successive editors, so his account is a quick read.
It's not clear which of the editors it was who translated a particularly "obscene" passage (about one culture's methods of ensuring brides are virgins) into Latin instead of into English, but I look askance at whoever it was.… (meer)