The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition, Vol. II 9780486275871

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Автор: Polo, Marco
Название: The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition, Vol. II (Марко Поло: Путешествия Марко Поло)
Издательство: Dover
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ISBN: 0486275876
ISBN-13(EAN): 9780486275871
ISBN: 0-486-27587-6
ISBN-13(EAN): 978-0-486-27587-1
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 896
Вес: 0.334 кг.
Дата издания: 14.03.2012
Серия: Travel, Adventure
Язык: ENG
Издание: New ed of 1903 ed
Иллюстрации: 32 maps and site plans, nearly 200 illustrations
Размер: 21.36 x 13.67 x 4.17 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The complete yule-cordier edition
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: As many schoolchildren know, Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) was a Venetian traveler who, with his father and uncle, traveled to the Orient and brought back fabulous stories of exotic lands and people to an unbelieving medieval Europe. The journey lasted 25 years, 17 of which were spent at the court of Kublai Khan, the Chinese emperor. At some point after his return home, Marco Polo was imprisoned by the Genoese, then at war with Venice. It proved to be a fortunate incarceration, for while in prison Marco Polo dictated the story of his travels to a fellow-prisoner, a writer named Rustichello. The book that resulted is one of the greatest books of all time -- a vast treasury of valuable observations on the people and geography of the Near East and Asia, with detailed descriptions of cities, customs, crops, animals, and wildlife, laws, political systems, and more.
Reprinted here in two volumes, with extensive editorial apparatus and some 200 illustrations, The Travels of Marco Polo offers a sweeping panorama of Persia, China, Japan, and other lands in the last half of the thirteenth century. This Dover edition is reprinted from the third edition (1903), revised and updated by Henri Cordier, of the magnificent translation made by Sir Henry Yule in 1871. Of inestimable value are the extensive notations by Yule that clarify and expand each chapter of the book. Also included in the Dover edition is a memoir of Sir Henry Yule by his daughter and the extensive addenda that Cordier published in 1920. Nearly 200 black-and-white illustrations (many double-page spread) and 32 maps and site plans augment the text.