by Marco Polo · NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853264733
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«The Travels of Marco Polo» is Marco Polo's travel book, published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Marco Polo recounts his journey with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo from Venice to the court of Kublai Khan, in thirteenth-century China. Marco Polo served the Great Khan, travelled across Asia and described lands and customs unknown to Europeans. The text combines chronicle and wonder, and was one of the sources of the Age of Discovery.
The work, also known as «Il milione», was dictated by Marco Polo while he was imprisoned in Genoa and is part of the Wordsworth Classics of World Literature collection.
A work of interest for readers of medieval history, travel and classic non-fiction literature.
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo, a book that described the then-mysterious culture and inner workings of the Eastern world, including the wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China under the Yuan dynasty, giving Europeans their first comprehensive look into China, Persia, India, Japan, and other Asian societies.
