![]() The study of history has an important role to play in helping us to decipher and respond to the present situation by understanding its roots and development in the past, with the hope of constructing a better future. ![]() 11, we have been obliged, suddenly and dramatically, to re-examine our image of, attitudes toward, and relations with the Muslim and non-Christian Eastern world in order to understand why the tragic events of that day occurred. This new edition of the fascinating account by a medieval Franciscan friar, Odoric of Pordenone, of his journeys through the Middle and Far East (modern-day Turkey, Iran, Iraq, India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Vietnam and China) comes at an appropriate moment in our national life. ![]() The Travels of Friar Odoric by Introduction by Paolo Chiesa trans. ![]()
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