There, young Marco will meet Kublai Khan, the ruler of the vast Mongolian empire. Polo also ventures to Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu." 32 illustrations. Join the 13th century merchants Marco, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo as they journey from their native city of Venice to the faraway land of Cathay, or China. There he serves in the court of Kublai Khan, then the leader of the most advanced and powerful country in the world. 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. A retelling of Marco Polos chronicles of his journey to the court of the Mongol emperor, Kublai Khan, in the thirteenth century and his lesser-known. Join the 13th century merchants Marco, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo as they journey from their native city of Venice to the faraway land of Cathay, or China. 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. Working from the traditional lyrical Marsden translation, editor Manuel Komroff corrected it against Henry Yule's magisterial two-volume work, including a chapter missing from the Marsden, to create a wonderfully readable and authoritative version. His work, which was very frequently copied, was a. Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. Genoa from 1298 to 1299 Marco Polo supposedly dictated a book to a romance writer, Rustichello da Pisa. With all the intrinsic interest of Marco Polos Book it may perhaps be doubted if it would have continued to exercise such fascination on many minds. One of the ten best adventure books of all time (National Geographic Adventure).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |