Traveling to the "Tartars"

Alfred J. Andrea is Emeritus Professor of History, The University of Vermont and the author of numerous books, including The Medieval Record: Sources of Medieval History (Second Revised Edition, 2020) and Expanding Horizons: The Globalization of Medieval Europe, 450–1500 (2024), both available from Hackett Publishing.

“Andrea provides excellent translations of several of the most significant European contemporary travel reports of the thirteenth-century Mongols. His analysis and translation of the Franciscan John of Plano Carpini’s work will become the standard account. Andrea also offers a fine Introduction about the Mongols and a valuable Bibliography for students who seek more detailed information about the group that carved out the largest contiguous land empire in world history.” —Morris Rossabi, Columbia University, author of Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times, University of California Press, new ed. 2009)