Friar Felix at Large Author:H.F.M. Prescott In the year 1480 Friar Felix Fabri set out from a quiet priory in Germany on the first of two pilgrimages to the Holy Land. Based on his journals here is the colorful story of how he traveled, who he met and what he saw. Friar Felix filled his book with homely and pleasant details of picnics and feasts, jokes, quarrels between Muslim and Christ... more »ian, the knavery of ship captains, Venice where pilgrimage was a major industry.« less