Nearly 200 black-and-white illustrations (many double-page spread) and 32 maps and site plans augment the text. 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. When traveling in Asia, he became a favorite of Kublai Khan, the Mongol Emperor. He was one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia and China and became famous for his book that told the story of his travels along the Silk Route to China. Of inestimable value are the extensive notations by Yule that clarify and expand each chapter of the book. When he was 17 years old he traveled to Asia with his father and uncle. 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. 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. 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. At some point after his return home, Marco Polo was imprisoned by the Genoese, then at war with Venice. The journey lasted 25 years, 17 of which were spent at the court of Kublai Khan, the Chinese emperor.
Marsden, assuming that the book was originally written in. 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 book of the Travels of Marco Polo, containing so much that must be attractive to all.
As many schoolchildren know, Marco Polo (c.
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