The Travels of Marco Polo, Illustrated Editions - Hardcover

Polo, Marco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402796307 ISBN 13: 9781402796302

Publisher: Union Square & Co., 2012

Synopsis

The newest volume in Sterling Signature's successful Illustrated Edition series takes readers on a fascinating journey into a world once unknown. Marco Polo almost single-handedly introduced fourteenth-century Europe to the civilizations of Central Asia and China. Now this stunningly illustrated volume, edited by renowned historian Morris Rossabi, offers the complete text of Polo's travelogue (in the respected Yule-Cordier translation), enhanced with more than 200 images--including illuminated manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and maps. Sidebars and dozens of informative footnotes combine to present Polo and his travels in a captivating new light.

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About the Author

Morris Rossabi is a historian and professor of China and Central Asia who teaches courses in Inner Asian and East Asian history at the City University of New York and Columbia University. He is the author ofHerder to Statesman; The Mongols and Global History; Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists; andKhubilai Khan: His Life and Times, which was chosen as a main selection by the History Book Club. He is also a contributor to several volumes of theCambridge History of China. He received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia and was named distinguished visiting scholar at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan, from May through July of 2010. In 2006, he was named chair of the Arts and Culture Program of the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros. In addition, he has helped to organize exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. The author of numerous articles and speeches, he travels extensively around North America and to Central Asia and Mongolia, where he lectures on Mongolian and East Asian history. He currently resides in New York City.

Reviews

Although there have been several accounts of Marco Polo’s journey, Rossabi’s illustrated edition distinguishes itself with high-quality color pictures that serve to enhance the text, including maps (contemporary and medieval), photographs, and illuminations. Marco Polo’s travel accounts, primarily drawn from the Yule-Cordier translation, are accompanied by supplementary texts (with illustrations) on pages that have distinct borders from those that chronicle the travel accounts. The illustrations are so beautiful that they are likely to draw in the reader; however, most readers may consider the travel accounts’ language too archaic. Still, most libraries will want to consider this for general history collections. --Muhammed Hassanali

Edition details

• Publisher: Union Square & Co.
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402796307
• ISBN 13: 9781402796302
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 377
• Editor: Rossabi Morris