The Travels Of Marco Polo Illustrated

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Asia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004360855

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 1866 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781801701730

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The Travels of Marco Polo (Illustrated) by Marco Polo Pdf

The Venetian adventurer Marco Polo traveled from Europe to Asia in the late thirteenth century, as immortalised in his seminal work of travel literature. It describes Polo’s assorted travels throughout Asia and his experiences in the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan. Composed at a time when very little was known about the Far East, Polo’s account opened new vistas to the European mind, allowing Western horizons to expand. His description of Japan set a definite goal for Christopher Columbus in his journey of 1492, while Polo’s detailed discoveries of spices encouraged Western merchants to seek new sources and break trading monopolies. The wealth of geographic information recorded by Polo was widely used in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, fuelling an era of great European discoveries. Delphi’s Medieval Library provides eReaders with rare and precious works of the Middle Ages, with noted English translations and the original texts. This eBook presents Marco Polo’s complete text, with illustrations, an informative introduction and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Polo's life and adventures * Features the complete extant works of Marco Polo, in both English translation and Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s original Italian text * The complete Yule-Cordier 1903 translation, with hundreds of illustrations and footnotes * Concise introduction to the text * Superior formatting * Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Features four bonus biographies — discover Polo's medieval world CONTENTS: The Translation Brief Introduction to Marco Polo The Travels of Marco Polo (c. 1300) The Original Text The Italian Text The Biographies Marco Polo (1832) by James Augustus St. John Sir Marco Polo, the Venetian, and His Travels in Asia (1893) by W. H. Davenport Adams Marco Polo (1904) by John H. Haaren Marco Polo (1911) by Henry Yule and Charles Raymond Beazley

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1402796307

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

The newest volume in Sterling Signature's successful Illustrated Edition series takes readers on a fascinating journey into a world once unknown. Marco Polo almost single-handedly introduced fourteenth-century Europe to the civilizations of Central Asia and China. Now this stunningly illustrated volume, edited by renowned historian Morris Rossabi, offers the complete text of Polo's travelogue (in the respected Yule-Cordier translation), enhanced with more than 200 images--including illuminated manuscripts, paintings, photographs, and maps. Sidebars and dozens of informative footnotes combine to present Polo and his travels in a captivating new light.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 0382090985

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Anonim Pdf

Marco Polo recounts his voyage to China where he served the emperor Kublai Khan for seventeen years before returning to Venice.

Author : Henry Yule
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732620692

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Henry Yule Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0871401843

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

"One of the ten best adventure books of all time."--National Geographic Adventure

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:228443157

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The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Marco Polo,Aldo Ricci,Luigi Foscolo Benedetto
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia
ISBN : 8120609492

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo,Aldo Ricci,Luigi Foscolo Benedetto Pdf

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Asia
ISBN : BL:A0019033200

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The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1603033009

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Marco Polo,Rustichello of Pisa
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1656 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547779360

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The Travels of Marco Polo (Vol. 1&2) by Marco Polo,Rustichello of Pisa Pdf

The Travels of Marco Polo is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan. The Travels is divided into four books. Book One describes the lands of the Middle East and Central Asia that Marco encountered on his way to China. Book Two describes China and the court of Kublai Khan. Book Three describes some of the coastal regions of the East: Japan, India, Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, and the east coast of Africa. Book Four describes some of the then-recent wars among the Mongols and some of the regions of the far north, like Russia. Polo's writings included descriptions of cannibals and spice-growers.

Author : Marco Polo,Sir Henry Yule,Henri Cordier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0486275868

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo,Sir Henry Yule,Henri Cordier Pdf

Volume 1 of 2-volume set. One of the greatest books of all time — a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, political systems, much more. 200 illustrations, 32 maps and site plans.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974-11-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141906577

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The Travels by Marco Polo Pdf

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 Kubilai 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. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.

Author : Morris Rossabi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0520938623

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Modern Mongolia by Morris Rossabi Pdf

Land-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, Mongolia turned to international financial agencies—including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank—for help in compensating for the economic changes caused by disruptions in the communist world. Modern Mongolia is the best-informed and most thorough account to date of the political economy of Mongolia during the past decade. In it, Morris Rossabi explores the effects of the withdrawal of Soviet assistance, the role of international financial agencies in supporting a pure market economy, and the ways that new policies have led to greater political freedom but also to unemployment, poverty, increasingly inequitable distribution of income, and deterioration in the education, health, and well-being of Mongolian society. Rossabi demonstrates that the agencies providing grants and loans insisted on Mongolia's adherence to a set of policies that did not generally take into account the country's unique heritage and society. Though the sale of state assets, minimalist government, liberalization of trade and prices, a balanced budget, and austerity were supposed to yield marked economic growth, Mongolia—the world's fifth-largest per capita recipient of foreign aid—did not recover as expected. As he details this painful transition from a collective to a capitalist economy, Rossabi also analyzes the cultural effects of the sudden opening of Mongolia to democracy. He looks at the broader implications of Mongolia's international situation and considers its future, particularly in relation to China.

Author : Mary Hull
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 156006238X

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Mary Hull Pdf

History and travels of Marco Polo.