A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books
ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the
east. 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.
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