Ship for FREE and get fast cash back Our services Sell books Buy books Rent books eBooks B2B. To make it more accurate, editor Manuel Komroff corrected it against Henry Yule's magisterial two-volume work, including a chapter missing from the Marsden. Sell The Travels of Marco Polo 0393979687 at BooksRun. This classic edition uses the traditional lyrical Marsden translation. Now, seven hundred years later, it is still a gripping look at a legendary place and time. A few years after his return, he is taken in battle with the Genoese and dictates this book to a fellow prisoner.
Going by way of India and Sumatra, being kidnapped and robbed, he is no longer the youth of seventeen. And he regales the reader with the great battles fought during Kublai Khan's reign.įinally he returns to Venice after a three-year journey and almost twenty years away. Engaging with people who follow Islam and Buddhism, he perceives their religions as best he can through the lens of his own Christianity. He is amazed by a black stone that burns for hours to heat their homes, thus learning about coal. He finds that the Chinese actually do use paper currency instead of the gold and silver currency of the West. He records small details of domestic life, as well as commenting on how medicine is practiced and how marriages are arranged. We become travelers along with Polo, visiting cultures he only heard about in tales that seemed more like legends than reality. There he stays at the court of Kublai Khan, venturing to both the capital of Beijing and Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu." Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from his birthplace, Venice, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places like Persia, the land of the Tartars, Tibet, and, most important, China. Chosen as one of the ten best adventure books of all time by National Geographic Adventure, The Travels of Marco Polo remains a wondrous and exciting story. Shocking glimpses of medieval Asian culture that may also unlock Khmer mysteries.
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