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The Travels (Hardcover)
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The Travels (Hardcover)
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
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List price R593
Loot Price R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books
ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the
east, in a collectible clothbound edition. 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 Kublai 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. His account of his travels offers a
fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar
religions, 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 colour and
immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the then
unknown East and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of
all time. For this edition - the first completely new English
translation of the Travels in over fifty years - Nigel Cliff has
gone back to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh,
authoritative new version. The volume also contains invaluable
editorial materials, including an introduction describing the world
as it stood on the eve of Polo's departure, and examining the
fantastical notions the West had developed of the East. Marco Polo
was born in 1254, joining his father on a journey to China in 1271.
He spent the next twenty years travelling in the service of Kublai
Khan. There is evidence that Marco travelled extensively in the
Mongol Empire and it is fairly certain he visited India. He wrote
his famous Travels whilst a prisoner in Genoa. Nigel Cliff was
previously a theatre and film critic for The Times and a regular
writer for The Economist, among other publications, and now writes
historical nonfiction books. His first book, The Shakespeare Riots,
was published in 2007 and 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
and was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
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