The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century

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Through Three Continents within the Twelfth Century

Imagine a time when streets were narrow and dirty, towns were surrounded by walls, brigands lurked alongside roads that were treacherous and few, bridges over rivers were rare, and a man setting out on a journey never knew if he would return alive. It was once the year 1159 when the medieval Jewish traveler Benjamin left his native the town of Tudela in northern Spain on an adventure to peer the places he had examine within the Bible. He traveled for fourteen years – from Rome to Constantinople to Jerusalem to Baghdad, among others – by ship, by cart, and on foot, enduring great hardships in his quest for knowledge of other places and people.

Working from Benjamin’s original chronicle, written in Hebrew, in addition to other sources at the period, Uri Shulevitz captures the real spirit of this amazing adventurer, the use of a text written within the first person and superlative illustrations.

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela is a 2006 Bank Street – Perfect Children’s Book of the Year.

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