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""The History of Mar Yahballaha & Rabban Sawma is as deserving and important as Marco Polo's Travels, and now we have an up-to-date version for the classroom. The translation is of high quality, and the editorial choices add clarity. The work is accessible to students and non-specialists but remains useful to scholars. It is an excellent book to pair with Marco Polo--travelers in the same period but going in opposite directions."" --Timothy May, University of North Georgia ""An up-to-date, approachable presentation of a complex and fascinating text. Carlson situates this extraordinary journey from East to West, Mongol China to Capetian France, in its religious, political, and social context. Drawing on the latest scholarship as well as his own expertise, he deftly handles thorny questions, from the identity of the anonymous author to the ways in which medieval Syriac conventions of politeness may affect our reading of the text today. ""My students loved the story but struggled through the previous English translations, both now almost a hundred years old. This edition will make it easier for them to understand and appreciate the extraordinary lives of Rabban Sawma and Yahballaha III."" --Hannah Barker, Arizona State University

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