The Travels Of Marco Polo
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few accounts in the history of world literature have fired the imagination quite like The Travels of Marco Polo, the extraordinary chronicle of a Venetian merchant's epic journey across the vast expanse of Asia in the 13th century. Dictated by Polo himself during his imprisonment in Genoa around 1298, the narrative transports the reader from the opulent courts of Kublai Khan in Cathay to the spice-laden shores of the Indian Ocean, presenting a medieval world of breathtaking scope, splendour, and wonder that few Europeans had ever dared to imagine. The work stands as one of the foundational texts of Western travel writing, a document that simultaneously functions as adventure memoir, geographical survey, and cultural testament. Polo's voice is that of a sharp-eyed merchant and keen observer, cataloguing the customs, riches, and rulers of civilisations utterly foreign to his Venetian audience with a matter-of-fact authority that only deepens the sense of the fantastical. Centuries after its composition, The Travels of Marco Polo continues to challenge our understanding of the medieval world — and leaves the reader wondering just how much of its most astonishing detail was, in fact, the plain truth.
Author: -
Format: Hardback
Genre: Travel & exploration
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Few accounts in the history of world literature have fired the imagination quite like The Travels of Marco Polo, the extraordinary chronicle of a Venetian merchant's epic journey across the vast expanse of Asia in the 13th century. Dictated by Polo himself during his imprisonment in Genoa around 1298, the narrative transports the reader from the opulent courts of Kublai Khan in Cathay to the spice-laden shores of the Indian Ocean, presenting a medieval world of breathtaking scope, splendour, and wonder that few Europeans had ever dared to imagine. The work stands as one of the foundational texts of Western travel writing, a document that simultaneously functions as adventure memoir, geographical survey, and cultural testament. Polo's voice is that of a sharp-eyed merchant and keen observer, cataloguing the customs, riches, and rulers of civilisations utterly foreign to his Venetian audience with a matter-of-fact authority that only deepens the sense of the fantastical. Centuries after its composition, The Travels of Marco Polo continues to challenge our understanding of the medieval world — and leaves the reader wondering just how much of its most astonishing detail was, in fact, the plain truth.