Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Henry Yule
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 21,12 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 : 37,13 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.
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Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 21,85 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 : Marco Polo
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Asia
ISBN :
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Asia
ISBN :
Author : George M. (George Makepeace) 184 Towle
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781371556938
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Author : Ibn Fadlan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 13,80 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 : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1932361715
Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys—from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram. Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing, with each chapter containing a “commentary track”—endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Asia
ISBN :
A retelling of Marco Polo's chronicles of his journey to the court of the Mongol emperor, Kublai Khan, in the thirteenth century and his lesser-known voyages. The narrative has been abridged and adapted with omissions for young readers.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141398361
'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...' In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested caves... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Marco Polo (1254-1324). Polo's Travels are available in Penguin Classics.