Excerpt from Stepping-Stones of American History In the next century the 'voyage and Travels of Sir John Mandeville appeared. Sir John is gener ally regarded as a great impostor because Of the stories that he told of what he saw and did, stories which we know now could never have been true. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.