Bøger af 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.

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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.

'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...'In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested caves...Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Marco Polo (1254-1324). Polo's Travels are available in Penguin Classics.

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El Millón, conocido en castellano como Los viajes de Marco Polo o Libro de las Maravillas, fue escrito en prisión, dictado por su autor Marco Polo a un compañero de cárcel. Después de muchos años viviendo en Asia, Marco había regresado a Venecia ya con 41 años de edad, y comandaba una galera veneciana el día en que se libró, ante los muros de Korcula, una batalla naval contra la gran rival de Venecia, la República de Génova, en 1298. Los genoveses apresaron a Marco Polo, lo llevaron a Génova y allí, en la prisión, Polo dictó a un tal Rustichello de Pisa las memorias de su viaje fabuloso hasta Catai (China) y el regreso por Malaca, Ceilán, la India y Persia. Rustichello redactó en un dialecto franco-véneto el libro conocido como Il Milione (El millón o Los viajes de Marco Polo) acerca de sus viajes. El libro se llamó originalmente Divisament du monde ("Descripción del mundo"), pero se popularizó como Libro de las maravillas del mundo y, más tarde, como Il Milione. El libro se convirtió de inmediato en un éxito.

El libro relata los viajes de Marco Polo a China, a la que él llama Catay (norte de China) y Mangi (sur de China). Polo supuestamente dictó su obra a un amanuense, Rustichello de Pisa, quien fue su auténtico autor, basándose en relatos de comerciantes italianos y en su fantasía mientras estuvo preso en Génova en 1298 y 1299;Marco Polo solo es el personaje novelesco protagonista.

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