by Marco Polo · Assírio & Alvim · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789723713251
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«Viagens» is Marco Polo's travel account, published in 2008 by Assírio & Alvim in paperback (224 pages, in Portuguese).
«Viagens», also known as Il Milione, covers Marco Polo's twenty-four years in Asia and his time at the court of Kublai Khan. It describes customs, cities and wonders of the East, from China to India, alternating real testimony with fabulous elements, and introduced to the medieval West a world almost unknown.
Original title: «Il Milione», dated 1298. This Portuguese edition appeared on 1 June 2008.
Recommended on Portugal's National Reading Plan as reading for secondary education.
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.
