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Marco Polo

The Travels

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A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written, in a collectible clothbound edition Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China. Afterward, he served Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions in the Far East. His subsequent account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions; new customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; the precious gems, exotic vegetation, and wild beasts of faraway lands. Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with color and immediacy, Marco Polo's book revolutionized Western ideas about the then-unknown East and re… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Cliff, Nigel (Übers.) / Cliff, Nigel (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-14-119877-4
  • EAN: 9780141198774
  • Produktnummer: 16776263
  • Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 480 S.
  • Masse: H20.6 cm x B13.2 cm x D3.2 cm 598 g
  • Gewicht: 598
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Marco Polo (Author) Marco Polo travelled to China in 1271 and spent the next twenty years in the service of Kublai Khan. He wrote his famous Travels after returning home, whilst a prisoner in Genoa.Nigel Cliff (Translator) Nigel Cliff's first book, The Shakespeare Riots (2007), was shortlisted for the Washington-based National Award for Arts Writing. His second book, The Last Crusade: Vasco da Gama and the Birth of the Modern World appeared in 2011.

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