Marco Polo

Travels of Marco Polo (Revised)

Herausgeber: Komroff, Manuel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China. There he serves in the court of Kublai Khan, then the leader of the most advanced and powerful country in the world. Polo also ventures to Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 140mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9780871401847
• ISBN-10: 0871401843
• Artikelnr.: 22051825

Inhaltsangabe

The Travels of Marco PoloIntroduction
Principal Figures of the House of Genghis Khan
Map: Travels of Marco Polo
Prologue
Book I
Of Regions Visited or Heard of on the Journey from Lesser Armenia to the
Court of the Great Khan at Shangtu
Book II
Of the Great Kublai Khan and of Provinces Visited on Journeys Westward and
Southward
Book III
Of the Sea of Chin and the Great Island of Zipangu, Which Lies to the East
of Cathay, and of the Islands of Java, Angaman and Zeilan, Which Are in
Lesser India. Of Greater India, the Richest and Noblest Country in the
World. Of the Islands of the Males and the Females, Socotra, Madagascar,
and Zanzibar, and the Provinces of Abyssinia and Aden, Which Comprise
Middle India
Book IV
Of the Region of Darkness, the Province of Russia, Great Turkey, and the
War Between the Tartars of the West and the Tartars of the East
Afterword
Index