The Travels of Marco Polo
About this book
Join the 13th century merchants Marco, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo as they journey from their native city of Venice to the faraway land of Cathay, or China. There, young Marco will meet Kublai Khan, the ruler of the vast Mongolian empire. Read about his many adventures serving the Khan in the lands East of Europe, and his adventures coming back home to Venice. This medieval book, dictated by Marco while imprisoned in Genoa, was one of the inspirations of the Age of Exploration during the Renaissance, and it still intrigues readers today to learn of the Polo's adventures in the far East.
Subjects
- 915
- asia, description and travel
- asie
- asien
- bibliography
- biblioteca civica (padua, italy)
- biography
- chinese inscriptions
- descripción y viajes
- description and travel
- descriptions et voyages
- early maps
- early works to 1800
- fairy tales
- french literature
- g370 .p72 1958
- germanic calendar
- histoire
- historia
- history
- illumination of books and manuscripts
- italians
- journeys
- medieval civilization
- medieval illumination of books and manuscripts
- medieval travel
- miniature books
- mongals
- mongoles
- mongols
- mongols, history
- mongols--history
- natural history
- polo, marco, 1254-1323?
- pre-linnean works
- reseskildringar
- runic calendars
- specimens
- translations into english
- travel
- travelers
- voyages
- voyages and travels