Marco Polo and His World
eBook - ePub

Marco Polo and His World

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Marco Polo and His World

About this book

A lavishly illustrated tour of the famed adventurer's globetrotting travels, written by a celebrated translator of Polo's writings. At the age of seventeen, Marco Polo left his Venetian home on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter century. Imprisoned in Genoa five years later, he collaborated with Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa on a work they called The Description of the World. That book recounted "all the greatest marvels and great diversities of Greater Armenia, Persia, the Tartars, India, and many other provinces, " a story that made Polo famous for all time. In Marco Polo and His World, Sharon Kinoshita brings these marvels to life, describing the myriad commodities, plants, people, and animals that Marco encountered and recorded. Copiously illustrated, this book offers a vibrant introduction to Marco Polo's astounding adventures.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 Marco Polo and His World
  8. 2 The Book of the Great Khan
  9. 3 The Book of Marvels
  10. 4 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Merchants and Their World
  11. 5 Portrait Gallery: Marco Polo’s Contemporaries
  12. Afterword
  13. CHRONOLOGY
  14. REFERENCES
  15. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  16. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  17. PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  18. INDEX