Very interesting was reading about space since I watched the Apollo movie so I will be reading a lot of books about it this summer

I love reading classics from my childhood!

I loved the movie and didn’t realize there was a book. I loved all the added detail in the book!!!!!

Fantastic book great ending didn’t except it. I wish there would be another of this book ………………………..

Loved loved loved I read this series already and decided I need to read it all I loved again it’s that’s good

I loved the movie and didn’t realize there was a book. I loved all the added detail in the book!!!!!

I forgot how sad this book was and happy at the same time so many memories glad I choose for my classic book

Absolutely loved it!! Did not disappoint and I’ve now found a new favorite authors. This book kept me guessing and had me gasping out loud. Pulled on the heart strings so hard but just enough to be pleasant.

People traveled in the 12th-15t centuries. Merchants sought new markets, diplomats finagled treaties, and anyone who could get the necessary funding and permissions took religious pilgrimages. Bale explores the most common holy and trade routes based on what the travelers wrote in journals and guidebooks. It is very interesting, but too limited. Bale points out several times that Christians (Roman and Eastern/Greek), Muslims, and Jewish pilgrims visited many of the same places in Constantinople and Jerusalem. We only have the Christian, and almost exclusively Western European Christian, stories. One small chapter near the end follows Asian travelers’ adventures in the west. Ma Huan (Chinese Muslim), Het’um (Armenian Christian), and Rabban Bar Sauma (Christian Mongol) don’t represent the majority of nonEuropeans. A broader range of viewpoints and less personal commentary from the author would improve the book.

Absolutely loved it!! Did not disappoint and I’ve now found a new favorite authors. This book kept me guessing and had me gasping out loud. Pulled on the heart strings so hard but just enough to be pleasant.