PublishedPenguin Classics, April 2016 |
ISBN9780241253052 |
FormatSoftcover, 480 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.9cm × 1.9cm |
A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written
Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the 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 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 colour and immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the unknown east and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time.
