Book Description
Marco Polo recounts his voyage to China where he served the emperor Kublai Khan for seventeen years before returning to Venice.
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Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 9780382090981
Marco Polo recounts his voyage to China where he served the emperor Kublai Khan for seventeen years before returning to Venice.
Author : Henry Yule
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732620697
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 2017-12-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781981255689
Marco Polo almost the first European man to reach the wonderful world of East Asia. The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo when they where emprisoned together in Genoa, describing Polo's travels through Asia, Persia, China, and Indonesia between 1276 and 1291 and his experiences became at the court of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 1974-11-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 014190657X
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 Kubilai 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. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher :
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Asia
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Author : Marco Polo
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Asia
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Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780486275864
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. One of the greatest books of all time — a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, political systems, much more. 200 illustrations, 32 maps and site plans.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Signet Classic
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780451529510
Chronicling the 13th-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. This edition includes a new Introduction and a new Foreword. Original.
Author : Ibn Fadlan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0141975040
In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the far north.
Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429980620
We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only never went to China, he probably never even made it past the Black Sea, where his family conducted business as merchants.Marco Polo's travels from Venice to the exotic and distant East, and his epic book describing his extraordinary adventures, A Description of the World, ranks among the most famous and influential books ever published. In this fascinating piece of historical detection, marking the 700th anniversary of Polo's journey, Frances Wood questions whether Marco Polo ever reached the country he so vividly described. Why, in his romantic and seemingly detailed account, is there no mention of such fundamentals of Chinese life as tea, foot-binding, or even the Great Wall? Did he really bring back pasta and ice cream to Italy? And why, given China's extensive and even obsessive record-keeping, is there no mention of Marco Polo anywhere in the archives?Sure to spark controversy, Did Marco Polo Go to China? tries to solve these and other inconsistencies by carefully examining the Polo family history, Marco Polo's activities as a merchant, the preparation of his book, and the imperial Chinese records. The result is a lucid and readable look at medieval European and Chinese history, and the characters and events that shaped this extraordinary and enduring myth.