The Travels of Marco Polo: A Modern Translation - Hardcover

Polo, Marco; Bellonci, Maria

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871968908 ISBN 13: 9780871968906

Publisher: Facts on File, 1984

Synopsis

The thirteenth-century Italian merchant and explorer recounts his adventures in China and tells how he served as an emissary for Kublai Khan

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Marco Polo's account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recorded customs, natural history, strange sights, historical legends, and much more. From the dazzling courts of Kublai Khan to the perilous deserts of Persia, no book contains a richer magazine of marvels than the Travels.
This edition, selected and edited by the great scholar Manuel Komroff, also features the classic and stylistically brilliant Marsden translation, revised and corrected, as well as Komroff's Introduction to the 1926 edition.

About the Author:

Jason Goodwin’s books include A Time for Tea: Travels Through China and India in Search of Tea; On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul; and Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0871968908
• ISBN 13: 9780871968906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218