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The Travels of William Bartram (Paperback, Naturalist's ed): William Bartram The Travels of William Bartram (Paperback, Naturalist's ed)
William Bartram; Volume editing by Francis Harper
R1,067 R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Save R132 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For years, serious naturalists have treasured their copies of Francis Harper's naturalist's edition of The Travels of William Bartram as the definitive version of Bartram's pioneering survey. Complete with notes and commentary, an annotated index, maps, a bibliography, and a general index, this classic is now back in print for the first time in decades. Harper's knowledge of natural history transforms Bartram's accounts of the southern states from a curious record of personal observation from the past into a guidebook useful to modern biologists, historians, ornithologists, and ethnologists. In 1773 the naturalist and writer William Bartram set out from Philadelphia on a four-year journey ranging from the Carolinas to Florida and Mississippi. For Bartram it was the perfect opportunity to pursue his interest in observing and drawing plants and birds. Combining precise and detailed scientific observations with a profound appreciation of nature, he produced a written account of his journey that would later influence both scientists and poets, including Wordsworth and Coleridge. Bartram was among the first to integrate scientific observations and personal commentary. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he condemned the idea that nature was simply a resource to be consumed. Instead, he championed the aesthetic and scientific values of an "infinite variety of animated scenes, inexpressibly beautiful and pleasing." From his field journals he prepared a report for his benefactor and a larger report for the public. The former was rediscovered much later and published in 1943; the latter was published in 1791 and became the basis for the modern Bartram's Travels.

A Journey through the West - Thomas Rodney's 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Hardcover, 1):... A Journey through the West - Thomas Rodney's 1803 Journal from Delaware to the Mississippi Territory (Hardcover, 1)
Thomas Rodney; Edited by Dwight L. Smith, Ray Swick
R1,847 Discovery Miles 18 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In A Journey through the West, Thomas Rodney writes vividly about flea-infested taverns, bad roads, drunken crew members, squatters, Indians sodden berths, food from the wild and treacherous waters. His is one of the most detailed early-nineteenth-century travel accounts. Rodney, a Revolutionary War patriot and veteran, had been active in Delaware politics and had served in the Continental Congress. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson appointed him as a land commissioner and a territorial judge in the newly formed Mississippi Territory. To assume his duties, Rodney and a small party traveled overland from Delaware across the length of southern Pennsylvania to Wheeling, (West) Virginia. From there, they boarded their newly constructed boat on the Ohio River and rowed, sailed, and drifted along the borders of (West) Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky. Finally they left the clear rapids of the Ohio and entered the muddy yet majestic Mississippi. They traveled southwesterly into a vast, exotic wilderness valley. The western shore of the Mississippi was still owned by Spain, and foreign soldiers were spotted. Under pressure to meet Rodney's deadline for arrival in Mississippi Territory, the travelers were grateful for the Mississippi's fast current. Yet in the journey's last days they were faced with adventures and with near disaster when their boat struck a snag and partially sank. Rodney kept a precise journal and sent letters to President Jefferson documenting his trek from the settled East through the barely chartered paths of the western wilderness. He hobnobbed with Meriwether Lewis, enjoyed the hospitality of Harman Blennerhassett, and received a tour of Cincinnati from Arthur St. Clair. Dwight Smith and Ray Swick have compiled, edited and annotated Rodney's story to present it in complete form for the first time. A Journey through the West, is both a travel adventure and a colorful glimpse into the life of his day.

Transports - Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Hardcover): Chloe Chard, Helen Langdon Transports - Travel, Pleasure, and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Hardcover)
Chloe Chard, Helen Langdon
R1,565 Discovery Miles 15 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this rich exploration of the era of the Grand Tour, contributors from the fields of history, art history, literary history and theory, science history, and anthropology investigate the experiences of travelers and their ways of understanding and representing their encounters with the foreign. From the beginning of the seventeenth century through the early decades of the nineteenth century, the practice of the Grand Tour supplied a crucial point of reference for travel and imaginative geography in general. At the same time, concepts of pleasure and enjoyment became entangled with visual and verbal representations of that which was foreign. With chapters by Ken Arnold, Rosemary Bechler, Richard Hamblyn, Roy Porter, E. S. Shaffer, Nicholas Thomas, Tzvetan Todorov, Richard Wrigley, and the editors, Transports discusses a range of original topics. These include narrative orderings of travel; the classification of exotic objects; pastoral and paradisal topography in the paintings of Claude Lorrain; Beckford's invocations of China as he travels through Italy; volcanoes in the discourses of travel and geology; the experience of Rome; crossing boundaries and exceeding limits in travel and in the sublime; liberty and license in New Zealand; foreigners' responses to the high-velocity culture of London; and Byron's sublime impulse beyond the established bounds of the Grand Tour. Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art

Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail (Paperback, New Ed): Matthew C. Field, Clyde Porter, Mae Reed Porter Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail (Paperback, New Ed)
Matthew C. Field, Clyde Porter, Mae Reed Porter; Edited by John E. Sunder; Foreword by Mark L. Gardner
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1839 a journalist for the New Orleans Picayune, Matthew C. Field, joined a company of merchants and tourists headed west on the Santa Fe Trail. Leaving Independence, Missouri, early in July "with a few wagons and a carefree spirit," Field recorded his vivid impressions of travel westward on the Santa Fe Trail and, on the return trip, eastward along the Cimarron Route. Written in verse in his journal and in eighty-five articles later published in the Picayune, Field's observations offer the modern reader a unique glimpse of life in the settlements of Mexico and on the Santa Fe Trail.

Colonial American Travel Narratives (Paperback): Various Colonial American Travel Narratives (Paperback)
Various; Edited by Martin, Wendy, Ph.D. 1
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in a single volume.

Travel Fact and Travel Fiction - Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing... Travel Fact and Travel Fiction - Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing (Hardcover)
Z R W M Martels
R4,286 Discovery Miles 42 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Travel Fact and Travel Fiction" contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.

Through the Dark Continent: v. 2 (Paperback, New edition): Henry Morton Stanley Through the Dark Continent: v. 2 (Paperback, New edition)
Henry Morton Stanley
R659 R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Save R56 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Volume 2 of great explorer's classic account of explorations of lakes of Central Africa, perilous journey down unexplored Congo River. Incredible hardships, perseverance. Total in set: 149 illustrations. Map.

On A Chinese Screen (Paperback, New Ed): W. Somerset Maugham On A Chinese Screen (Paperback, New Ed)
W. Somerset Maugham
R285 R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Save R28 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature: ON A CHINESE SCREEN is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes.

A series of acute and finely crafted sketches of Westerners who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Within the narrow confines of their colonial milieu, missionaries, consuls, army officers and company managers are all gently ridiculed as they persist obliviously with the life they know

A Journey to Ohio in 1810 (Paperback): Margaret Van Horn Dwight A Journey to Ohio in 1810 (Paperback)
Margaret Van Horn Dwight; Edited by Max Farrand; Introduction by Max Farrand, Jay Gitlin
R262 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R20 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Here is a valuable and rare document providing a woman's perspective on a western passage that has received little attention from historians. Margaret Dwight's journal gives us a first-hand account that goes way beyond the usual reckoning of miles traveled and notes on the weather. She provides an intimate view of the people on the trail. From her observations we get a sense of the back-country settlements of Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1810, the language, the sounds, and even the smells of this early American West. Her journal is full of witty and occasionally sarcastic remarks. For all her prejudices and self-admitted pride, she emerges as a likeable person and valuable guide."-Jay Gitlin, in his introduction. In his introduction, Jay Gitlin, a professor of history at Yale University, says more about Margaret Van Horn Dwight's wagon journey in 1810 from New Haven, Connecticut, to Warren, Ohio, where she would find a husband, bear thirteen children, and die in middle-age.

Travels in Hawaii (Paperback, New Ed): Robert Louis Stevenson Travels in Hawaii (Paperback, New Ed)
Robert Louis Stevenson; Edited by A. Grove Day
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1899 a chartered yacht, the Casco, brought to Honolulu Robert Louis Stevenson and his family. The writer was then already at the height of his popularity in Europe and the United States. He spent the next six months and another, shorter period in 1893 in the Hawaiian Islands, participating in the life of the "royal crowd" and enjoying the best health of a lifetime plagued with illness. Travels in Hawaii brings together many of the diverse works from a romantic interlude in the career of this famous writer.

Letters from High Latitudes (Paperback, Facsimile of 1856 ed): Lord Dufferin Letters from High Latitudes (Paperback, Facsimile of 1856 ed)
Lord Dufferin
R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1865, Lord Dufferin, a young Anglo-Irish peer, commissioned the schooner Foam and sailed to the Arctic. The lively style and humour of his account of the voyage won instant success and the book became an Victorian bestseller.

Through the Dark Continent: v. 1 (Paperback, New edition): Henry Morton Stanley Through the Dark Continent: v. 1 (Paperback, New edition)
Henry Morton Stanley
R661 R605 Discovery Miles 6 050 Save R56 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Volume 1 of great explorer's classic account of explorations of lakes of Central Africa, perilous journey down unexplored Congo River. Incredible hardships, perseverance. Total in set: 149 illustrations. Map.

Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East - Travel, Politics and the Idea of Empire (Paperback): Lisa McCracken Lacy Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East - Travel, Politics and the Idea of Empire (Paperback)
Lisa McCracken Lacy
R1,433 Discovery Miles 14 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled extensively in the Middle East, developing an especial fondness for the region and its people. In this book, Lisa Lacy explores the life, travels and political ideas of Lady Anne. With a broad knowledge of the Arab world, she challenged prevailing assumptions and, as a result of her aristocratic heritage, exerted strong influence in British political circles. Her extensive journeys in the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, Iraq and Persia formed the basis of her knowledge about the Middle East. She pursued an intimate knowledge of Bedouin life in Arabia, the town culture of Syria and Mesopotamia and the politics of nationalism in Egypt. Her husband, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, gained a reputation as an anti-imperialist political activist. Lacy shows that Lady Anne was her husband's partner in marriage, politics and travel and exerted strong influence not only on his ideas, but on the ideas of the British political elite of the era.

Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte by Vivant Denon, Translated from the French to Which... Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte by Vivant Denon, Translated from the French to Which is Prefixed an Historical Account of the Invasion of Egypt by the French by E.A. Kendal, Esq, v. 2 (Hardcover, Facsimile edition)
Vivant Denon; Translated by E.A. Kendal
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'A book more interesting in its subject, or more satisfactory in its execution, is seldom issued from the press. The country of which it treats, and the circumstances under which it was produced, equal each other in singularity.' So writes the translator of this work, first published in English in 1802, and here republished in facsimile, complete with maps and original engravings, in two volumes. Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825) French illustrator and government official, accompanied Napoleon on his Egyptian campagin in 1798. His journal combines an extraordinary account of military endeavour, with a survey of the country and its people as seen through the eyes of a keen and sensitive observer. The resultant work, enhanced with numerous illustrations by the author, holds a unique place in both European and Arabic historical studies. The author later became director general of French museums, and was the first administrator to organise collections in the Louvre. The republication of his work will be widely welcomed.

The Wilderness Journeys - The Story of My Boyhood and Youth: A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf: My First Summer in the Sierra:... The Wilderness Journeys - The Story of My Boyhood and Youth: A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf: My First Summer in the Sierra: Travels in Alaska: Stickeen (Paperback, Main)
John Muir; Introduction by Graham White
R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation, and as the first person to promote the idea of National Parks. Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery, Muir's writings of his travels through some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska and those lands which were to become the great National Parks of Yosemite and the Sierra Valley, raise an awareness of nature to a spiritual dimension. These journals provide a unique marriage of scientific survey of natural history with lyrical and often amusing anecdotes, retaining a freshness, intensity and brutal honesty which will amaze the modern reader. This collection, including the never-before-published Stickeen, presents the finest of Muir's writings, and imparts a rounded portrait of a man whose generosity, passion, discipline and vision are an inspiration to this day.

The Land of the Great Image: Historical Narrative (Paperback, New edition): Maurice Collis The Land of the Great Image: Historical Narrative (Paperback, New edition)
Maurice Collis
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A hybrid of history and biography, Maurice Collis's The Land of the Great Image concerns a little-known Portuguese friar abroad in early seventeenth-century Asia. The book chronicles the great diplomatic coup of Friar Manrique's career, opening the kingdom of Arakan, now Burma (land of the "great image" of the Buddha) to the Church and to Portuguese trade, Dispatched from Goa, capital of the now almost forgotten Portuguese empire in Asia, Manrique made his way across and around the Bay of Bengal, surviving shipwreck, tigers, and pirates, to reach the court of King Thiri-thu-dhamma. And all along Manrique's way the author waits at every turn with another curiosity, another historical tidbit for the reader to relish. Collis notes how trials of the Inquisition were run (which too had set up shop in Goa); the luxury enjoyed by Europeans in the East; what was served for dinner at court; how elephant warfare was waged; and what went into a potion magically brewed to bring glory to King Thiri-thu-dhamina (the hearts of 2,000 white doves, 4,000 white cows, and 6,000 of his subjects).

Aller Retour New York (Paperback): Henry Miller Aller Retour New York (Paperback)
Henry Miller
R256 R230 Discovery Miles 2 300 Save R26 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'New York is an aquarium ... where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks' In 1935 Henry Miller set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. Aller Retour New York, his exuberant, humorous missive to his friend Alfred Perles describing the trip and his return journey on a Dutch steamer, is filled with vivid reflections on his hellraising antics, showing Miller at the height of his powers. This edition also includes Via Dieppe-Newhaven, his entertaining account of a failed attempt to visit England. 'The greatest American writer' Bob Dylan

The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Paperback): Brian C. Wilson The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Paperback)
Brian C. Wilson
R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California-an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and his companions would take in breathtaking vistas in the Rockies and along the Pacific Coast, speak with a young John Muir in the Yosemite Valley, stop off in Salt Lake City for a meeting with Brigham Young, and encounter a diversity of communities and cultures that would challenge their Yankee prejudices.Based on original research employing newly discovered documents, The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson maps the public story of this group's travels onto the private story of Emerson's final years, as aphasia set in and increasingly robbed him of his words. Engaging and compelling, this travelogue makes it clear that Emerson was still capable of wonder, surprise, and friendship, debunking the presumed darkness of his last decade.

The Gentleman In The Parlour (Paperback, New Ed): W. Somerset Maugham The Gentleman In The Parlour (Paperback, New Ed)
W. Somerset Maugham; Introduction by Paul Theroux
R289 R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Save R27 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Best Known for his novels and plays, Somerset Maugham also produced the most delightfully engaging and absorbing non-fiction, of which The Gentleman in the Parlour is a prime example. First published in 1935 it is the account of a journey the author took form Rangoon to Haiphong.Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's muse is in the spirit of Hazlitt, who wrote: 'It is great to shake off the trammels of the world and public opinion...and become the creature of the moment.and to be known by no other title than "The Gentleman in the Parlour".'

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way - Discover the 1960s trend for buying land on a Greek island and building a house. How hard... A Funny Thing Happened On The Way - Discover the 1960s trend for buying land on a Greek island and building a house. How hard could it be...? (Paperback)
Nancy Spain
R295 R269 Discovery Miles 2 690 Save R26 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos 'A happy, hilarious book' Daily Express Nancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 50s and 60s. Witty, controversial and brilliant, she lived openly as a lesbian (sharing a household with her two lovers and their various children) and was frequently litigated against for her newspaper columns - Evelyn Waugh successfully sued her for libel... twice. Nancy Spain had a deep love of the Mediterranean. So it was no surprise when, in the 1960s, she decided to build a place of her own on the Greek island of Skiathos. With an impractical nature surpassed only by her passion for the project, and despite many obstacles, she gloriously succeeded. This classic memoir is infused with all Spain's chaotic brilliance, zest for life and single-minded pursuit of a life worth living. Perfect for fans of A PLACE IN THE SUN and ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY 'Full of fun, and that zest of intelligence that never left her' Sunday Times

Pacific Possessions - The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts (Hardcover): Chris J Thomas Pacific Possessions - The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts (Hardcover)
Chris J Thomas
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Reframes Polynesia and Melanesia through analysis of nineteenth-century travel writing In Pacific Possessions: The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts, Chris J. Thomas expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Melanesia beyond the giants, such as Herman Melville and Jack London, to include travel narratives by British and American visitors. These accounts were widely read and reviewed when they first appeared but have largely been ignored by scholars. For the first time, Thomas defines these writings as a significant literary genre. Recovering these works allows us to reconceive of nineteenth-century Oceania as a vibrant hub of cultural interchange. Pacific Possessions recaptures the polyphony of voices that enlivened this space through the writing of these travelers, while also paying attention to their Oceanian interlocutors. Each chapter centers on a Pacific cultural marker, what Thomas refers to as each writer's 'possession' the Tongan tattoo, the Hawaiian hula, the Fijian cannibal fork, and Robert Louis Stevenson's cache of South Seas photographs. Thomas analyzes how westerners formed narratives around these objects and what those objects meant within nineteenth-century Oceanian cultures. He argues that the accounts served to shape a version of Oceanian authenticity that persists today. The profiled traveler-writers had complex experiences, at times promoting exoticized exaggerations of so-called authentic Polynesian and Melanesian cultures and at other times genuinely engaging in cultural exchange. However, their views were ultimately compromised by a western lens. In Thomas's words, 'the authenticity is at once celebrated and written over.'

Travels in Alaska (Paperback): John Muir Travels in Alaska (Paperback)
John Muir
R486 Discovery Miles 4 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 9 - A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland (Hardcover): Samuel Johnson The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 9 - A Journey to the Western Island of Scotland (Hardcover)
Samuel Johnson; Edited by Mary Lascelles
R3,517 Discovery Miles 35 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland' is not only a narrative of personal experience, rare in the canon of his writings, but also a deeply reflective survey of the Highlands and Isles--their social and economic structure, their traditions and customs. Beyond this, Johnson undertakes a subtle, penetrating analysis of a people in the throes of change, and examines the predicament they face as a result.

Cliffs and Challenges - A Young Woman Explores Yosemite, 1915-1917 (Paperback): Laura White Brunner Cliffs and Challenges - A Young Woman Explores Yosemite, 1915-1917 (Paperback)
Laura White Brunner; Edited by Jared Champion
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When she couldn't find hiking boots that fit, Laura White Brunner explored Yosemite backcountry barefoot, and at times alone, in an era when grizzly bears still roamed the park. When told she couldn't hike in pants, she pinned up her skirt. Brunner showed admirable pluck, but, more remarkably, she did it as a teenager in the 1910s-and she wrote it all down. Her memoir, recovered from the Yosemite archives and published here for the first time, recounts two summers spent working and hiking in Yosemite Valley during a time of great change-in the park and in the world beyond. In captivating prose Brunner describes her unlikely adventures in the summers of 1915 and 1917, as well as what she calls "the interlude" between them. Sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always engaging, her account captures the "trails" and tribulations of a young woman coming of age in America's most beautiful national park. Lightly edited and put into biographical, geographical, and historical context by Jared N. Champion, the book is also illustrated with historic photographs, many taken by Brunner herself. It provides an indelible picture of a bygone time, of awakening young womanhood in a pristine natural world just opening to tourism on a grand scale. Late in life, Laura White Brunner (1899-1973) told a reporter that she had always wanted to be a national park ranger, but, sadly, was "born too soon." Nonetheless she made Yosemite her own-in her hiking, photographs, and memoir, but also in a practical sense, when her ascent of Half Dome by the "Clothes-Line Rope" inspired the park administration, who feared more women might summit the monolith, to install the iconic "Cables on Half Dome" route that remains in place today. Brunner went on to a career in journalism and though she tried for decades to publish her memoir, this is its first appearance in print.

Marco Polo - Journey to the End of the Earth (Paperback, New Ed): Robin Brown Marco Polo - Journey to the End of the Earth (Paperback, New Ed)
Robin Brown 2
R319 R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The incredible story of Marco Polo's journey to the ends of the earth has for the last seven hundred years been beset by doubts as to its authenticity. Did this intrepid Venetian really trek across Asia minor as a teenager, explore the length and breadth of China as the ambassador of the ruthless dictator, Kublai Khan, and make his escape from almost certain death at the hands of Kublai Khan's successors? Robin Brown's book aims to get to the truth of Marco Polo's claims. Covering his early life, his extraordinary twenty-four-year Asian epic and his reception in Italy on his return, Marco Polo places the intrepid Venetian in context, historically and geographically. What emerges confirms the truth of Polo's account. Polo, scholars now agree, opened vistas to the medieval mind and stirred the interest in exploration that prompted the age of the European ocean voyages. All who now enjoy the fruits of Marco Polo's incredible journey through Asia - whether in the form of spectacles, fireworks, pasta or any of the many products of the Silk Road - will find in Robin Brown-Lowe's book a fascinating portrait of a man who made history happen by bringing about the meeting of East and West.

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