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The Travels: v. 1 (1903 of Henry Yule's Annotated Translation,) by: Marco Polo List Price: £19.99 City Travel Guides Price: £17.99 You Save: £2.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 915.042 EAN: 9780486275864 ISBN: 0486275868 Label: Dover Publications Inc. Manufacturer: Dover Publications Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 567 Publication Date: 1993-10 Publisher: Dover Publications Inc. Studio: Dover Publications Inc. Sales Rank: 439983 Browse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Modern scholars have questioned the veracity of Marco Polo's account, but there's no doubt that his description of his travels through the Mongol Empire of the Middle Ages--with its spices, exotic animals, rare jewels and dancing girls--is enchanting. --Kathleen Keefe Book Description: One of the ten best adventure books of all time (National Geographic Adventure). Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. 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. The artist Witold Gordon created thirty-two two-colour woodcut illustrations for the original edition, published again here for the first time in over fifty years. 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. There he serves in the court of Kublai Khan, then the leader of the most advanced and powerful country in the world. Polo also ventures to Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu." 32 illustrations. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - The classic cross-cultural experienceEvery fantastic location and creature and event described and experienced by the Polo family really existed. And yet the world still doubts the authenticity of this 13th century trader's experiences. I have seen many of these locations and cultures for myself, some of which have hardly changed, and I continue to be amazed by the detail of his descriptions. Rating: - Barely believable adventuresMarco writes well enough of his travels and you feel that you are there. You can actually follow the trail if you have a map. He describes the flora and fauna of each region and describes the economics and industry of the region. Example: "The women of the superior class are in like manner free from superfluous hairs; their skins are fare, and they are well formed." It is interesting to see how little has changed from Marco Polo's 13th century and now. Rating: - Makes Survivor Participants Look Like WussesThis volume will enthrall anyone interested in true adventure. Marco Polo was the original Indiana Jones and then some. Please do not waste time on Gary Jennings' The Journeyer. This is the real deal and needs no dramatic embellishments. The Travels takes you on a trip from 13th century Venice to "Cathay" and back again. You will learn how Europeans found out about fireworks, paper currency, printing and pasta. The harrowing journey across the Gobi desert is particularly well reported. Marco Polo was more than an explorer. He was one of the world's first anthropologists. This is an exciting read, an account of how medieval Europe initially perceived China and the far east, and of how the Mongol rulers and Chinese emperors ... Read More: |
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