Marco Polo The Travels

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Marco Polo’s voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China.
Afterward he served Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic
missions in the Far East. His subsequent account of his
travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he
encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions; new 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 color and
immediacy Marco Polo’s book revolutionized Western ideas
about the then-unknown East and remains one of the
greatest travel accounts of all time. Nigel Cliff’s new
translation based on the original medieval sources is a
fresh authoritative rendering with a lively introduction
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