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The Travels of Marco Polo (The Yule Edition) Unknown Binding – January 1, 1969

by Francis R. Gemme (Contributor)

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January 1, 1969
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000BRQHX6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Airmont Publishing Co., Inc (January 1, 1969)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Unknown Binding ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces

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Marco Polo was the original, trailblazing tourist. He was born into a wealthy Venetian merchant family in 1254 and at the age of 17 he embarked on an epic journey to Asia, as one of the first westerners to ever visit China. When he returned 24 years later he recorded his extensive travels in a book – publishing possibly the first travel guide ever – and introducing Europeans to Central Asia and China.

Marco Polo’s travels have since inspired countless adventurers to set off and see the world. Allegedly, Christopher Columbus set off across the Atlantic with a copy of Marco Polo’s original book!

It is this pioneering spirit that drives us at Marco Polo Travel Publishing to provide you with the best guides, maps and atlases possible – to inspire you to set off on your own adventures and help you travel the world. We offer a wide range of high quality travel publications to over 200 destinations, all written by local and trusted authors.

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RJ

Great translation

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2023

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Loved this translation. (not that I've read others, just very much enjoyed this one). The language was rich and the flow well done. Formatting was very good, too.

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William M Cook

See the world when magic was REAL!

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2023

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Footnotes would help. I found myself looking for definitions of words no longer in any dictionary and explanations to try to frame it in modern geography. Other than having been translated, it is AS WRITTEN!

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Savannah Rogers

Pleasantly surprised; great descriptive travelogue

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2010

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We had another great Marco Polo reading session while the little kids rested upstairs. My Ambleside Online curriculum suggests a few different children's picture books for learning about Marco Polo's travels from Italy to China, but I had accidentally ended up with the actual 300-plus-page unabridged travelogue. With just a few two-color engraving prints as art. When I skimmed through the book, though, it sounded pretty interesting, and I thought it would be fascinating to experience reading the full story, and imagine being like Marco Polo's Italian contemporaries experiencing these travels vicariously through the book's descriptions and no pictures.

So I had figured out we would need to read 10 pages per week to finish the book in a school year. With stopping to look up words now and then (salubrious??), follow the route on the map and in our children's atlas, and discuss various events as we go, these 10 pages usually take 45 minutes to an hour. Usually the AO readings are limited to 15 minutes.

We ended up reading this time about ruby, salt and lapis lazuli mines, Tibetan monks, ladies in giant fat-hip pants made from huge pieces of pleated fabric, villages carved into "clay" hills (that sounded a lot like the pictures in our atlas of the volcanic rock villages of Cappadocia in central Turkey), and the Man of the Mountain, Hassan, who stole village youth and brought them to his "Paradise" garden, where he also trained them as assassins. We also learned that the word assassin comes from hashish, which the Man used to drug these young men so they wouldn't find the secret passage into the fortified garden. We learned that Alexander the Great had married the daughter of Persian king Darius, and that a herd of fine horses along Marco Polo's travels was said to be descended from Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus. I'm not sure who gets more out of our history studies, N or me. =O)

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Petra

Bastante completa

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2023

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Es interesante,, un poco repetetivo, muy ilustrativo

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Marcus

Must read

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2021

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Fascinating journal of the ancient worl.

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great book. amazing adventure

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2017

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great book.amazing adventure.

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UF 75

Lacks a narrative

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2023

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It is like reading notes from a lecture or from your research

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John Jones

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2020

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I’m a fan of nonfiction books about voyages and adventures but this is something very different than the typical storytelling style. It’s his recollection of places and people told in a very matter-of-fact way that doesn’t generate reader interest. It comes off as unrelatable. After five minutes I knew it wasn’t for me.

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jennifer chong

arrived on time in good condition

Reviewed in Canada on February 13, 2022

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It was bought as a gift so I cannot respond to your questions accurately. It was a request from the person.

Firefly17pndr

Interesting book about that time period

Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2020

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Interesting book about that time period. I especially like Marco Polo's observation about seeing dragons (serpents) 10 paces in length on page 152 which were by description dinosaurs in the province of Karazan, 10 days west of the city of Yachi in the 1200's. So much for the fable of evolution.

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