The Travels of Marco Polo

By:

Marco Polo

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature 1997Description: 285 pagesISBN:

9781853264733

Subject(s):

Description and travel, Voyages and travels, History, Mongols, Early works to 1800, Chinese Inscriptions, Travel, Early maps, Travelers, Biography, Bibliography, Biblioteca civica (Padua, Italy), Illu

DDC classification:

915/.042 POL-T

Summary: Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo\\\'s journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo\\\'s contemporaries.Encompassing a twenty-four year period from 1721, Polo\\\'s account details his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India and ends with the remarkable story of Polo\\\'s return voyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the Persian Gulf. Alternately factual and fantastic, Polo\\\'s prose at once reveals the medieval imagination\\\'s limits, and captures the wonder of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar, the exotic or the unknown.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	915/.042 POL-T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB2150

Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo\\\'s journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo\\\'s contemporaries.Encompassing a twenty-four year period from 1721, Polo\\\'s account details his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India and ends with the remarkable story of Polo\\\'s return voyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the Persian Gulf. Alternately factual and fantastic, Polo\\\'s prose at once reveals the medieval imagination\\\'s limits, and captures the wonder of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar, the exotic or the unknown.

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