The travels of Marco Polo, greatly amended and enlarged from valuable early manuscripts recently published by the French Society of Geography and in I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789353607029)

Across deserts, mountains and dazzling courts, a Venetian voice crosses seven centuries to describe a world in motion. History breathes in these pages. This classic exploration history, presented here in Hugh Murray's greatly amended and enlarged rendering, brings together the complete travels of Marco Polo as a vivid medieval travel narrative based on early, authoritative manuscripts. Readers follow the Venetian explorer in China and across 13th century Asia along mercantile roads and sea lanes, into great cities and, most famously, to the Kublai Khan court, gaining a rare primary source travelogue of silk road journeys and everyday life under the vast Mongol Empire. Scholarly geographer Hugh Murray shaped one of the most trusted windows onto Mongol empire history, producing a scholarly Marco Polo edition that balances narrative immediacy with careful attention to sources and variants. For students of medieval history, the text offers essential evidence for trade, diplomacy and cross-cultural encounter; for armchair travel readers, it opens an astonishing succession of landscapes, cities and customs that feel both remote and recognisably human. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. A heritage volume for libraries, scholars and curious general readers, it preserves a landmark of medieval travel writing for modern reading and long-term collecting.

Author: Hugh Murray
ISBN-10: 9353607027
ISBN-13: 9789353607029
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2019
Pages: 372
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.83d