7/4/2023 0 Comments The book of marco poloPolo also ventures to Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu." 32 illustrations. Author: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323 Contributors: Marsden, William, 1754-1836. There he serves in the court of Kublai Khan, then the leader of the most advanced and powerful country in the world. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian is a nineteenth-century edition of the famous travelogue written by Rustichello da Pisa and Marco Polo, describing the travels of the latter through Asia, Persia, China and Indonesia between 12. 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. 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. The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition : Including the Unabridged Third Edition (1903) of Henry Yules Annotated Translation, as Revised. Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. One of the ten best adventure books of all time (National Geographic Adventure).
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