A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever
written
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.
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