Tarot of the Journey To The Orient (English and Spanish Edition) [Box set] [Cards]

Pietro Alligo (Author), Riccardo Minetti (Author), Severino Baraldi (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 8, 2002

Since the Tarot itself is a journey, it is only fitting that the theme of Marco Polo's travels provides both inspiration and context for a Tarot deck. Tarot of the Journey to the Orient reveals the meeting of East and West, a meeting filled with mutual curiosity and respect. Baraldi, who uses attention to detail and careful research to reconstruct the desired atmosphere, captures the delicate style of the Orient as well as the powerful meanings of the Tarot symbols. By examining the cards from twin points of view and language, readers can enhance and expand their understanding.

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Since 1987, Art Publisher Lo Scarabeo has published over 100 Tarot decks that have been acclaimed all over the world for originality and quality. Only the best Italian and International artists are selected for our new decks, and the result is that Lo Scarabeo's decks are all recognizable as an exceptional artistic value.

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Product Details

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• Publisher: Lo Scarabeo (September 8, 2002)
• Language: English, Spanish
• ISBN-10: 073870282X
• ISBN-13: 978-0738702827
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 2.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,584,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, Amazing Deck !, December 16, 2004

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Perle "Perle" (ISTANBUL Turkey) - See all my reviews

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Cards: The cards are beautiful and well designed and suitable for hands.They are best quality and are like silky.
Divinity: I made several spreads for searching answers to my specific questions and each time I received amazing answers exactly corresponding to my situation. I felt a strange divine magnetism betwen the cards and myself.
I love these cards and this deck is now in between my favorite ones.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite tarot deck!, May 23, 2004

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I really love this tarot deck! It's not a traditional deck, and it seems you can interpret it in many different ways. The artwork really inspires my intuition. It might not be ideal for a beginner, though. This is the only deck I use; the other ones I had just didn't appeal to me anymore!

3.0 out of 5 stars Needs a guidebook, July 31, 2011

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The cards are artistically detailed, with soft, attractive colors; some of them are rather complex, and almost all are enigmatic to someone not familiar with Marco Polo's travels, and his book, which this deck supposedly "recalls". The accompanying little white book (as often with Scarabeo, in 5 languages) gives some information on the images in the major arcana, but has just a line or two for each card in the minor arcana, and these interpretations are what you would expect for any tarot deck: they do not refer to the very different imagery in this deck. I do not find the minor arcana to be intuitively obvious, and without some written information about them, they are very difficult to read.