Authorhouse UK, the self-publishing company that printed my first book, "Dawn and Sunset: A Tale of the Oldest Cities in the Near East", has offered to issue my second volume. Heaven knows, I did a lot to avoid this chance.
Meanwhile, I have found no traditional publisher that is enthusiastic about bringing out my composition. Since I had no alternative, I finally agreed.
I did my best, revising the entire text again. I added several images though I am not sure that they will accompany the text. My literary consultant said that I need to ask permission from the owners of the photos even though most of my artwork is borrowed from Wikipedia. I wrote several letters but received only one permission, from the British Library concerning the Psalter Mappa Mundi, where Jesus blesses the earth.
In the following weeks, you will catch a glimpse of my second book.
It is titled, "The Enchanting Encounter with the East: Breaking the Ice between the Latin West and the Far East". I have uploaded more than half of the volume on the Academia site, https://independent.academia.edu/BaizermanMichael
Since nobody knows the exact order of the chapters, I will present the content here. The book comprises 29 chapters arrayed in six units.
Unit I: THE
MIRACULOUS REVIVAL OR THE PAINFUL RECOVERY
1: What If the Earth is the Sphere
2: How to Measure the Earth's Circumference
3: How Long Spans the Inhabited World
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Unit II: The Saga of All My Sons
4. The Trefoil
of the World
5. Where is
the Heart of the World: The Location of Jerusalem on European Mind Maps
6. In Black
and White: Racial Prejudices in the European Middle Ages
7. The Enigma
of the Antipodes
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Unit III:
Unveiling the Alien
8. The Squall
from the East
9. The Suspension
Bridge across the Abyss
10. The Swan
Song of the Mongol Thrust
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Unit IV: Mapping Marvels and Monsters: In the Shadow of the Iron Gate
11. Meet your Enemy
12. Alexander at the Caspian Gates
13. Beware of Barbarians
14. A Kernel of Truth
15. Alexander Versus Gog-Magog
16. The Lost and Found Tribes
17. The Ten Tribes and Other Monsters
18. The Turks in Jacob’s Tents
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Unit V: Dreams
Amid Debris: In the Shoes of Prester John
Prologue
19. The Early Encounters: Under the Historic
Radar
20. The Shadow Crusader: Otto of Freising
21. The Black Prince: Yelu Dashi
22. The Mysterious Letter
23. Waiting for the Train that Would Never
Come: The Fifth Crusade
24. The Scourge of God: Chinggis Khan
25. The Underdog and the Power Strife on the Steppes
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Unit VI: The
Witness in the Den
26. Barefooted Envoys
27. John of Plano Carpini
28. William of Rubruck
29. John of Montecorvino
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Line
List
of Illustrations
Personal
and Geographic Index
Further Reading
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