Travels of Marco Polo

Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo's contemporaries. Encompassing a twenty-four year period from 1721, Polo's account details his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India and ends with the remarkable story of Polo's return voyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the Persian Gulf. Alternately factual and fantastic, Polo's prose at once reveals the medieval imagination's limits, and captures the wonder of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar, the exotic or the unknown.

根据13世纪后期意大利旅行家马可·波罗居留元朝统治下之中国近二十年亲历撰述《马可波罗行记》（亦名《东方闻见录》或《马可波罗游纪》），在西方有“奇书”之誉。卓越亚马逊为您带来英国华兹华斯出版社出版的英文原版《马可波罗游纪》，让您体验英文世界里的元代中国。

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This work recounts Marco Polo's journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftan of the Mongol empire which traverses the Asian continent, but which was virtually unknown to Polo's contemporaries. It encompasses a 24-year period starting in 1271, detailing his travels.

Synopsis:
Chosen as one of the ten best adventure books of all time by National Geographic Adventure. Liveright is proud to reissue a facsimile of its classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. Beginning 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. 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. The Travels of Marco Polo remains a wondrous adventure narrative. 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, the land of the Tartars, Tibet, India, and, most important, China. There he stays at the court of Kublai Khan, venturing to the capital of Beijing and to Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu." This is a gripping look at a legendary place and time. Two-color illustrations.

Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)12.6

BOOK ONE
Prologue
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2 Of Armenia Minor Of the Port of Laiassus And of the Boundaries of the Province
3 Of the Province called Turkomania, where are the Cities of Kogni, Kaisariah, and Sevasta, and of its Commerce
4 Of Armenia Major, in which are the Cities of Arzingan, Argiron, and Darziz Of the Castle of Paipurth Of the Mountain where the Ark of Noah rested Of the Boundaries of the Province And of a Remarkable Fountain of Oil
5 Of the Province of Zorzania and its Boundaries Of the Pass where Alexander the Great constructed the Gate of Iron And of the miraculous Circumstances attending a Fountain at Teflis
6 Of the Province of Mosul and its different Inhabitants Of the People named Kurds And of the Trade of this Country
7 Of the great City of Baldach or Bagadet, anciently called Babylon Of the Navigation fiom thence to Balsara, situated in what is termed the Sea of India, but properly the Persian Gulf And of the various Sciences studied in that City
8 Concerning the Capture and Death of the Khalif of Baldach, and the miraculous Removal of a Mountain
9 Of the noble City of Tauris, in Irak, and of its Commercial and other Inhabitants
10 Of the Monastery of Saint Barsamo, in the Neighbourhood of Tauris
11 Of the Province of Persia
12 Of the Names of the Ezght Kingdoms that constitute the Province of Persia and Of the Breed of Horses and of Asses found therein
13 Of the City of Yasdi and its Manufactures, and of the Animals found in the Country between that place and Kierman
14 Of the Kingdom of Kierman, by the Ancients named Karmania Of its Fossil and Mineral Productions Its Manufactures Its Falcons And of a great Descent observed upon passing out of that Country Of the City of Kamandu, and District of Reobarle
Of certain Birds found there Of a peculiar kind of Oxen And of the Karaunas, a Tribe of Robbers
15 Of the City of Ormus, situated on an Island not far from the Main, in the Sea Of India Of its Commercial mportance And of the Hot Wind that blows there
16 Of the Shipping employed at Ormus Of the Season in which the Fruits are produced And of the Manner of Living and Customs of the Inhabitants
17 Of the Country travelled over upon leaving Ormus, and returning to Kiennan by a different Route; and of a Bitterness in the Bread occasioned by the Quality of the Water
18 Of the Desert Country between Kierman and Kobiam, and of the Bitter Quality of the Water
19 Of the Town of Kobiam, and its Manufactures
20 Of the Journey from Kobiam to the Province of Timochain on the Northern Confines of Persia And of a Particular Species of Tree
BOOK TWO
BOOK THREE