LE MERVEILLEUX VOYAGE DE SAINT BRANDAN...RECHERCHE DU PARADIS. [French.]

by Tuffrau, Paul

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Paris:: L'Artisan du Livre,, 1925. Hardcover; `William P. Shepard' + Hamilton College (NY) bookplates; `Gift from William Pierce Shepard'; leather & marbled boards; marbled endpapers; gilt-stamped spine; cover tips lightly worn; otherwise good.. Table. Tuffrau tells 9th-cent. tale of St. Brendan (also spelled Brandan), the Irish priest who, with 60 monks journeyed for 7 years, searching for The Land of Paradise (variously said to be west of southern Ireland; among the Canary Islands; drawn on maps in place of Madeira; near the Equator, 60 degrees west of the first meridian; etc.) ||| Now considered a legend, the story may have originated as a missionary parable.