The Travels of Marco Polo

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."

Summary

"One of the ten best adventure books of all time."-National Geographic Adventure

Product details

• Authors: Marco Polo, Polo Marco
• Assisted by: Witold Gordon (Illustration), Manuel Komroff (Editor), Komroff Manuel (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2003
• EAN: 9780871401847
• ISBN: 978-0-87140-184-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 208 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 529 g
• Illustrations: 32 illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; China, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Classic Travel Writing, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China