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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 Kubilai 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. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy. He found himself traversing the most exotic lands-from the dazzling Mongol empire to Tibet and Burma. This fascinating chronicle still serves as the most vivid depiction of the mysterious East in the Middle Ages.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Biography: general

• Full title: Travels of Marco Polo
• Author: Marco Polo
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322
• EAN: 9781607964711
• ISBN: 9781607964711
• ID: 08788288
• Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com
• Weight: 452 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. June 2012

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