The Travels (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
ISBN-13:
9780141198774
ISBN-10:
014119877X
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Marco Polo, Nigel Cliff
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Format:
Hardcover
480 pages
Category:
Europe
,
Historical
,
European History
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ISBN-13:
9780141198774
ISBN-10:
014119877X
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Marco Polo, Nigel Cliff
Publication date:
2015
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Format:
Hardcover
480 pages
Category:
Europe
,
Historical
,
European History
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The Travels (Penguin Clothbound Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780141198774 and ISBN-10: 014119877X), written by authors
Marco Polo, Nigel Cliff, was published by Penguin Classics in 2015.
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Description
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 remains one of the greatest travel accounts of all time. Nigel Cliff’s new translation, based on the original medieval sources, is a fresh, authoritative rendering, with a lively introduction and notes.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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 remains one of the greatest travel accounts of all time. Nigel Cliff’s new translation, based on the original medieval sources, is a fresh, authoritative rendering, with a lively introduction and notes.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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