New British Book

Of more than passing interest among our many new books this May is British writer
Matthew Francis's book Mandeville. It presents in a series of lyrical poems the innter life and outer adventures of the 14th Century traveller and adventurer, and storyteller Sir John Mandeville, whose book describing the travels of a knight in Africa, India and the Middle East in 1322 was a medieval best seller. The poems are sensitive and spirited, and surprisingly fresh.