The travels of Marco Polo / edited and revised from William Marsden's translation, by Manuel Komroff ; introduction by Jason Goodwin
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian New York : Modern Library, 2001©2001 Edition: Modern Library paperback editionDescription: xiv, 322 pages : maps ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0375758186 (paperback)Subject(s): Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? -- Travel -- Asia | Voyages and travels | Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 | Mongols -- HistoryLOC classification: G370.P9 P67 2001Summary: 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.
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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.