Bücher von Marco Polo

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, 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 colour and immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the then unknown East and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time.For this edition - the first completely new English translation of the Travels in over fifty years - Nigel Cliff has gone back to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh, authoritative new version. The volume also contains invaluable editorial materials, including an introduction describing the world as it stood on the eve of Polo's departure, and examining the fantastical notions the West had developed of the East.Marco Polo was born in 1254, joining his father on a journey to China in 1271. He spent the next twenty years travelling in the service of Kublai Khan. There is evidence that Marco travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire and it is fairly certain he visited India. He wrote his famous Travels whilst a prisoner in Genoa.Nigel Cliff was previously a theatre and film critic for The Times and a regular writer for The Economist, among other publications, and now writes historical nonfiction books. His first book, The Shakespeare Riots, was published in 2007 and shortlisted for the Washington-based National Award for Arts Writing. His second book, The Last Crusade: Vasco da Gama and the Birth of the Modern World appeared in 2011 and was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

Fully updated and now with ZOOM system for even better orientation! Unique spiral binding with wrap-around spine. High quality cartography with distance indicators and scale converters to aid route planning.

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Señores emperadores, reyes, duques y marqueses, condes, hijosdalgo y burgueses y gentes que deseáis saber las diferentes generaciones humanas y las diversidades de las regiones del mundo, tomad este libro y mandad que os lo lean, y encontraréis en él todas las grandes maravillas y curiosidades de la gran Armenia y de la Persia, de los tártaros y de la India y varias otras provincias; así os lo expondrá nuestro libro y os lo explicará clara y ordenadamente como lo cuenta Marco Polo, sabio noble ciudadano de Venecia, tal como lo vieron sus mortales ojos. Hay cosas, sin embargo, que no vio, mas las escuchó de otros hombres sinceros y veraces. Por lo cual referimos las cosas vistas por vistas y las oídas por oídas para que nuestro libro resulte verídico, sin tretas ni engaños. Y todo hombre que leyere y entendiere este libro debe creer en él, pues todas estas cosas son verdad, y os certifico que desde que Dios nuestro Señor plasmó con sus manos a Adán y Eva, nuestros primeros padres, hasta hoy día, no hubo cristiano ni pagano ni tártaro ni indio ni hombre alguno de ninguna generación que tanto supiere ni buscare como el dicho mi señor Marco averiguó y supo; por eso os digo que sería gran desventura no quedaran escritas todas las grandes maravillas que vio y oyó para que las gentes que no las vieron ni conocieron tengan de ellas razón en este libro. Y os repito que para enterarse de ello vivió en estas diferentes regiones y provincias más de veintiséis años.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Marco Polo (ca. 1254-1324) stammte aus Venedig und bereiste mit Vater und Onkel den Orient. Die älteren Polos hatten vom mongolischen Großkhan den Auftrag erhalten, eine Botschaft des Papstes sowie Öl aus der Grabeskirche nach Peking zu bringen. Ihre Reise führte sie von Palästina (Akko, Jerusalem) über Stationen in Persien (Isfahan, Kerman) und die Seidenstraße (Samarkand) bis nach China und Japan. Polo berichtet so Wundersames, dass mancher Kritikus auf die Idee kam, die Reise habe nie (oder nicht so) stattgefunden. Marco Polos Ruhm hat das bis heute nicht geschadet.Marco Polo, geboren vermutlich 1254 in Venedig und verstorben 1324, ebenfalls in Venedig, war ein Händler, der wegen der Berichte über eine mehrjährige China-Reise Bekanntheit erlangte. Von diesem Bericht existieren heute noch etwa 150 Handschriften.

Let the Marco Polo map of French Atlantic Coast guide you around this wonderful region. Highly durable, this detailed, touring map folds away easily and is always on standby to help when you're stuck. Ideal for planning your trip before you go and for exploring while you're there. The map also features top sights not to be missed.

320 siders atlas med spiralryg i A4 format, målestokken er 1:300.000. Oversigtskort trykt på flappen af bogens omslag, afstandstabeller, register samt 14 transitkort, 34 bykort og 15 siders kort over Europa.

Experience Munich, the Bavarian federal capital, in all its glory with the Marco Polo Pocket Guide. This handy, pocket sized guide is packed with Insider Tips, Discovery Tours and a handy pull out map.

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.He found himself traversing the most exotic lands-from the dazzling Mongol empire to Tibet and Burma. This fascinating chronicle still serves as the most vivid depiction of the mysterious East in the Middle Ages.

The Book of Ser Marco Polo is an edition of the famous travelogue describing the travels of Marco Polo through Asia, Persia, China and Indonesia between 1271 and 1291. It was edited by the prominent nineteenth-century geographer Henry Yule and was considered an authoritative source on Polo's travels.

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