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Andrea di Robilant.
Venetian Navigators: The Mystery of the Voyages of the Zen Brothers.
Published London: Faber and Faber, 2012 (hardback was 2011).
ISBN 9780571243785.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: CPI Group, Croydon.
Size: 126x196x16mm.
Page count: vii,244pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs on its covers, a little wear on the edges and corners; pages a bit yellowed with age, and at least 4 pages have their corners turned over as place-markers; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price £9.99]
Weight without packaging: 200g.

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Did the brothers Niccolò & Antonio Zen travel the north Atlantic in the late fourteenth century, and perhaps even reach America? The story has long been dimissed as a hoax, but this book attempts to follow the brothers’ travels and find out if there might after all have been something in it.

Contents: Making a book; Messer Niccolò; Frislanda; Zichmni; Islanda; Estotiland, Drogio & Icaria; Engroneland; Squaring the circle; Venetian puzzle.

Illustrations: 1, monochrome
Maps & plans: several details from the Zen brothers’ map included as illustrations, otherwise no

Notes: at foot of page and end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 10pp
Index: no

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