Marco Polo

Travels of Marco Polo (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition, including the unabridged third edition (1903) of Henry Yule's annotated translation, as revised by Henri Cordier; together with Cordier's later volume of notes and addenda (1920). Both volumes in a single file. According to Wikipedia: "Books of the Marvels of the World (French: Livres des merveilles du monde) or Description of the World (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed Il Milione ("The Million") or Oriente Poliano and commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo, describing the travels of the latter through Asia, Persia, China, and Indonesia between 1271 and 1291. It was a very famous and popular book, even in the 14th century. The text claims that Marco Polo became an important figure at the court of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan. However, modern scholars debate how much of the account is accurate and some have questioned whether or not Marco Polo ever actually traveled to the court or was just repeating stories that he had heard from other travellers. The book was written in Old French by Rustichello da Pisa, a romance author of the time, who was reportedly working from accounts which he had heard from Marco Polo when they were imprisoned in Genoa having been captured while on a ship."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seltzer Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781455415915
• Artikelnr.: 54173731

Autorenporträt

Marco Polo (1254–1324) was the son of a Venetian merchant and traveler. In 1271, Marco, with his father and uncle, began a journey that four years later led to their being accepted at the court of Kublai Khan. During these years, they traveled extensively in Persia and China, through regions almost totally unknown to the Western world. In service to the Khan, Marco explored Tibet and Burma and many of the remote provinces of China; it is possible that he went to the southern parts of India as well. Participating in a military conflict between Genoa and Venice, he was taken prisoner in 1298. While in captivity, he dictated the Travels of Marco Polo to a fellow prisoner. Milton Rugoff was a longtime editor for several publishing houses. He is the author of a number of books, including A Harvest of World Folk Tales, Marco Polo’s Adventures in China, The Great Travelers, and The Beechers: An American Family in the Nineteenth Century, which was nominated for an American Book Award in 1982. Howard Mittelmark is an editor, book critic, and coauthor of How Not to Write a Novel. He lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

The Travels of Marco PoloIntroduction
Principal Figures of the House of Genghis Khan
Map: Travels of Marco Polo
Prologue
Book I
Of Regions Visited or Heard of on the Journey from Lesser Armenia to the
Court of the Great Khan at Shangtu
Book II
Of the Great Kublai Khan and of Provinces Visited on Journeys Westward and
Southward
Book III
Of the Sea of Chin and the Great Island of Zipangu, Which Lies to the East
of Cathay, and of the Islands of Java, Angaman and Zeilan, Which Are in
Lesser India. Of Greater India, the Richest and Noblest Country in the
World. Of the Islands of the Males and the Females, Socotra, Madagascar,
and Zanzibar, and the Provinces of Abyssinia and Aden, Which Comprise
Middle India
Book IV
Of the Region of Darkness, the Province of Russia, Great Turkey, and the
War Between the Tartars of the West and the Tartars of the East
Afterword
Index