The Travels of Marco PoloW. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - 370 sayfa Chronicling the thirteenth-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. There he serves in the court of Kublai Khan, then the leader of the most advanced and powerful country in the world. Polo also ventures to Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu." |
İçindekiler
Introduction | 3 |
Account of Regions Visited or Heard | 21 |
Account of the Great Kublai Khan | 111 |
Japan and Archipelago Southern | 259 |
The Wars Among the Tartar Princes | 325 |
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