The Travels
- Kategoria:
- literatura podróżnicza
- Seria:
- Penguin Clothbound Classics
- Tytuł oryginału:
- Il milione
- Wydawnictwo:
- Penguin Classics
- Data wydania:
- 2016-02-26
- Data 1. wydania:
- 2016-02-26
- Liczba stron:
- 480
- Czas czytania
- 8 godz. 0 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- ISBN:
- 9780141198774
- Tłumacz:
- Nigel Cliff
- Tagi:
- Marco Polo podróże klasyka
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.