The travels
(Book)
Uniform Title
Author
Contributors
Cliff, Nigel, translator.
Published
London : Penguin Classics, 2015.
Status
Franklin Ave. Library - Travel - Adult
915 P
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915 P
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Published
London : Penguin Classics, 2015.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
li, 417 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Translated into English.
Description
"Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; the precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts of faraway lands. Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the then unknown East and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time. For this edition - the first completely new English translation of the Travels in over fifty years - Nigel Cliff has gone back to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh, authoritative new version. The volume also contains ... an introduction describing the world as it stood on the eve of Polo's departure, and examining the fantastical notions the West had developed of the East"--Publisher's description.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Polo, M., & Cliff, N. (2015). The travels . Penguin Classics.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? and Nigel, Cliff. 2015. The Travels. Penguin Classics.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? and Nigel, Cliff. The Travels Penguin Classics, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Polo, Marco, and Nigel Cliff. The Travels Penguin Classics, 2015.
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