Its original title was Description of the. Review Quotes A timeless addition to any travel collection. Marco Polo wrote Il milione, which means The Million, and is today better known as the Travels of Marco Polo. 2 The original city of Ormuz, or Hormuz, was situated on the eastern shore of the. Polo also ventures to Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridges poem Xanadu. II y a quelques douze 1 6 Travels of Marco Polo heard these commands. He excelled all the other travelers in his determination, his writing. There he serves in the court of Kublai Khan, then the leader of the most advanced and powerful country in the world. Marco Polo (1254-1324), is probably the most famous Westerner traveled on the Silk Road. He was born into a wealthy Venetian merchant family in 1254 and at the age of 17 he embarked on an epic. Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China. The travels of Marco Polo the Venetian by Polo, Marco, 1254-1323 Marsden, William, 1754-1836 Publication date 1908, 1929 printing Usage Public Domain Topics Voyages and travels, Asia - Description and travel, Mongolia - History Publisher London : J.M. Marco Polo was the original, trailblazing tourist.

The artist Witold Gordon created thirty-two two-color woodcut illustrations for the original edition, published again here for the first time in over fifty years. Marco Polo (1254-1324 CE) was a Venetian merchant and explorer who travelled to China and served the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan (l.

Working from the traditional lyrical Marsden translation, editor Manuel Komroff corrected it against Henry Yules magisterial two-volume work, including a chapter missing from the Marsden, to create a wonderfully readable and authoritative version. About the Book One of the ten best adventure books of all time.-National Geographic Adventure Book Synopsis Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo.

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