Travels - Marco Polo
Travels - Marco Polo A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever writtenMarco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China. His subsequent account of his travels offers a…
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Travels - Marco Polo
A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever writtenMarco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China. His subsequent account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions; new customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; the precious gems, exotic vegetation, and wild beasts of faraway lands. Afterward, he served Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions in the Far East.
Nigel Cliff's new translation, based on the original medieval sources, is a fresh, authoritative rendering, with a lively introduction and notes.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with color and immediacy, Marco Polo's book revolutionized Western ideas about the then-unknown East and remains one of the greatest travel accounts of all time.