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Excerpt from Voyages and Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo, after his return from the East, married and had three daughters. Three years after the death of Dante, and three years before Sir John Mandeville set out upon his travels, Marco Polo died, at the age of seventy, in the year 1324. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East, Vol. 2 of 2N otes. - I King-sze' now Hang - chau. '2. The circuit ascribed to the City, the Bridges. 3. Hereditary T raa'es. 4. The Si-hzt or Western Lahe. 5. Dressiness of the People. 6. Charitable Establishments. 7. Paved faaa's. 8. Hot aria7 Cold Baths. 9. Kanpu, and the Hang - ehau Estuary. 10. The Nine Provinces of Manzi. II. The Kaan's...

Excerpt from The Adventures of Marco Polo, the Great Traveler Looking more carefully at the difference between the two directions of the new education we can see what each accomplishes. There is first an effort to train the original powers Of the individual and make him self-active, quick at observation, and free in his thinking. Next, the new education endeavors, by the reading of books and the study of the wisdom of the race, to make the ch...

Excerpt from The Book of Ser Marco Polo, Vol. 1 of 2: The Venetian Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the EastI therefore, gladly and thankfully, accepted Miss amy frances yule's kind proposal to undertake the editorship of the third edition of the Book of Ser Marco Polo, and I wish to express here my gratitude to her for the great honour she has thus done me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and cl...

Chronicling the 13th-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China. This edition includes a new Introduction and a new Foreword. Original.

Torna il celebre Milione in un'edizione completa e nella traduzione latina dell'opera, accompagnata da una moderna traduzione in italiano appositamente preparata. La redazione contiene anche numerosi passi del perduto originale dettato da Marco Polo (1254-1324), assenti nella versione trecentesca che viene correntemente pubblicata. Il favoloso rendiconto del lungo viaggio di Marco, compiuto tra il 1271 e il 1295, si arricchisce di nuovi partic...

Now in a handsome and newly revised hardcover edition: the extraordinary travelogue that has enthralled readers for more than seven centuries. Marco Polo's vivid descriptions of the splendid cities and people he encountered on his journey along the Silk Road through the Middle East, South Asia, and China opened a window for his Western readers onto the fascinations of the East and continued to grow in popularity over the succeeding centuries. ...

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Marco Polo The Description of the World Volume II as Transcribed in the Original Latin by A. C. Moule and Paul PelliotThis is by far the most complete and most authoritative transcription of the work of Marco Polo (1254-1324). It was discovered in the Cathedral de Toledo in Spain. It bears the date M.CC.XCVIII, which is 1298. In that year, Marco Polo was a prisoner in Genoa. He dictated his description of the world to a fellow prisoner, Rustic...

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A vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, politicals, more.

Composed in a prison cell in 1298 by Venetian merchant Marco Polo and Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa, The Description of the World relates Polo's experiences in Asia and at the court of Qubilai, the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. In addition to a new translation based on the Franco-Italian "F" manuscript of Polo's text, this edition includes genealogies of the Mongol rulers and nine maps of Polo's journey, as well as thorough a...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

The Canada Council for the Arts established the Prix de Rome in Architecture. During the years the Prix de Rome was in place, from 1987 to 2003, some of Canada's most important architects were given the opportunity to explore a more theoretical and experimental practice. This book reproduces the work of each of the Prix de Rome laureates.

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