The Travels

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Marco Polo 1254 1329 has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world The Travels recounts Polo s journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered the Asian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo s contemporaries Encompassing a twenty four year period from 1721, Polo s account details his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India and ends with the remarkable story of Polo s return voyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the Persian Gulf Alternately factual and fantastic, Polo s prose at once reveals the medieval imagination s limits, and captures the wonder of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar, the exotic or the unknown. Best Download The Travels Author Marco Polo For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr ChronologyIntroduction NotesFurther ReadingA Note on the TextMaps The Travels List of AbbreviationsAppendixNotesIndexI find it interesting how Marco Polo s description of the Middle East ofthan 700 years ago is pretty much a reflection of the way it is today That is to say, in thrall to the same old tribal passions Sad, that The text is perhaps most remarkable for its narrator s incuriousness We know the richness of these regions from the writings of subsequent travelers and historians, but Polo makes them all seem strikingly similar The narrative is thin and repetitive The only thing that makes th I find it interesting how Marco Polo s description of the Middle East ofthan 700 years ago is pretty much a reflection of the way it is today That is to say, in thrall to the same old tribal passions Sad, that The text is perhaps most remarkable for its narrator s incuriousness We know the richness of these regions from the writings of subsequent travelers and historians, but Polo makes them all seem strikingly similar The narrative is thin and repetitive The only thing that m...Intriguing, although a touch repetitive It s interesting to pick apart the details and see what the author gets right and wrong He gets the most obvious facts about Islam wrong, and still vainly hopes for the existence...On the face of it this the classic account of traveller Marco Polo s journey from Venice to China and back again is pretty straight forward Man makes journey, writes book, has mint named after him.Yet it is still controversial over what it alleges, contains and does not contain The book has a complex and unclear textual history That names of persons, places and offices are in a Persian form is remarkable given the claim that the Polos were active at the court of the Mongol Khan in China The On the face of it this the classic account of traveller Marco Polo s journey from Venice to China and back again is pretty straight forward Man makes journey, writes book, has mint named after him.Yet it is still controversial over what it alleges, contains and does not contain The book has a complex and unclear textual history That names of persons, places and offices are in a Persian form is remarkable given the claim that the Polos were active at...Here s a book that looks fantastic on the cover it s the story of Marco Polo s incredible travels to the East, told by the man himself Then you open the book and look into it a bit and realize that it might be boring against all odds For one, it isn t the tale of his adventure Instead, it s a systematic description of all the countries one can find east of Italy Check that no narrative.Then you actually start reading and you find out that no one not Marco Polo, not the scribe who wrote do Here s a book that looks fantastic on the cover it s the story of Marco Polo s incredible travels to the East, told by the man himself Then you open the book and look into it a bit and realize that it might be boring against all odds For one, it isn t the tale of his adventure Instead, it s a systematic description of all the countries one can find east of Italy Check that no narrative.Then you actually start reading and you find out that no one not Marco Polo, not the scribe who wrote down his account as they both languished in prison could bleach the book of its wonder I m not kidding Despite their best efforts to not write an adventure, the adventure shines through I read this book in long spurts, careful not to worry about soaking up the long, listlike information on each...I loved it He was lying most of the time about India, however I mean, it s hot here in the tropics, but boiling eggs in the river And dog headed people But they were such colourful and entertaining lies.Che viaggio Pi di un mese di lettura del resto Marco Polo ci ha messo poco meno di vent anni, quindi tutto sommato andata beneA Marco Polo, grandissimo personaggio, viaggiatore straordinario, autore di una delle opere pi importanti della storia, voto 5 su 5, e anche pi Al Milione, o Libro delle Meraviglie del Mondo, come da tradi...Marco Polo, fue uno de los personajes que m s admiraci n despertaban en m cuando era ni o recuerdo cierto programa de televisi n en forma de dibujos animados que relataba sus aventuras, el nombre se me ha ido , quiz la leyenda m s que el personaje hist rico en s mismo Muchas veces hab a o do hablar del relato de sus grandiosos viajes y la curiosidad siempre me hab a conducido a buscar tales relatos y tard en dar con ellos Confieso que, de haber le do El libro de las maravillas en mi infan Marco Polo, fue uno de los personajes que m s admiraci n despertaban en m cuando era ni o recuerdo cierto programa de televisi n en forma de dibujos animados que relataba sus aventuras, el nombre se me ha ido , quiz la leyenda m s que el personaje hist rico en s mismo Muchas veces hab a o do hablar del relato de sus grandiosos viajes y la curiosidad siempre me hab a conducido a buscar tales relatos y tard en dar con ellos Confieso que, de haber le do El libro de las maravillas en mi infancia o adolescencia lo habr a encontrado tremendamente aburrido, no es que ahora no su lectura no me haya resultado aburrida, pero lo habr a sido mucho m s habida cuenta de la ingente cantidad de descripciones y el nulo contenido de aventuras que un chico habr a esperado Ahora, a mis 31 a os al fin puede leer esta obra que, valga la aclaraci n es un tremendo cl sico, considero que a pesar de todo el sopor que me ocasion este libro, extremadamente lento y profuso e...I feel like my reading of this book has taken as long as Polo s travels Mostly, though, it was because I got sidetracked by the extensive footnotes subsequent internet research on various topics found in Polo s book Polo s tales are an eclectic mix of geography notes, merchant business observations, descriptions of plants animals governments cultural customs interspersed with strange outrageous tales many true along with plenty of gossip hearsay plenty false It s almost...

The Travels
  • English
  • 20 January 2017
  • Paperback
  • 384 pages
  • 0140440577
  • Marco Polo
  • The Travels