[PDF] El Libro De Marco Polo eBook

Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429980620

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We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only never went to China, he probably never even made it past the Black Sea, where his family conducted business as merchants.Marco Polo's travels from Venice to the exotic and distant East, and his epic book describing his extraordinary adventures, A Description of the World, ranks among the most famous and influential books ever published. In this fascinating piece of historical detection, marking the 700th anniversary of Polo's journey, Frances Wood questions whether Marco Polo ever reached the country he so vividly described. Why, in his romantic and seemingly detailed account, is there no mention of such fundamentals of Chinese life as tea, foot-binding, or even the Great Wall? Did he really bring back pasta and ice cream to Italy? And why, given China's extensive and even obsessive record-keeping, is there no mention of Marco Polo anywhere in the archives?Sure to spark controversy, Did Marco Polo Go to China? tries to solve these and other inconsistencies by carefully examining the Polo family history, Marco Polo's activities as a merchant, the preparation of his book, and the imperial Chinese records. The result is a lucid and readable look at medieval European and Chinese history, and the characters and events that shaped this extraordinary and enduring myth.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Editorial Verbum
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8490744157

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Descripción del mundo (Divisament du monde) nos presenta las aventuras del mercader veneciano Marco Polo en sus viajes a China en el siglo XIII. El manuscrito original escrito en francés antiguo o en una variante conocida como francoitaliano se ha perdido, pero el libro se tradujo a varias lenguas europeas ya en vida de su autor y alcanzó un éxito nada frecuente en la época anterior a la invención de la imprenta. Gracias a su relato se dieron a conocer en la Europa medieval las tierras y civilizaciones del Asia central y China. El libro de las maravillas se ha visto como un prototipo supremo de libro de viajes y aventuras, donde lo real y lo maravilloso se funden en un excepcional relato que ha seducido e inspirado a sus lectores, entre otros, a Cristóbal Colón, que poseía un ejemplar cuidadosamente anotado.

Author : Marco Marco Polo
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2017-01-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781542646888

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Los viajes de Marco Polo, conocido tambi�n como El libro de las maravillas o El libro del mill�n, es el t�tulo con el que suele traducirse al espa�ol el libro de viajes del mercader veneciano Marco Polo, conocido en italiano como Il Milione (El mill�n).

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141198788

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A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, 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 then unknown East and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time. For this edition - the first completely new English translation of the Travels in over fifty years - Nigel Cliff has gone back to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh, authoritative new version. The volume also contains invaluable editorial materials, including an introduction describing the world as it stood on the eve of Polo's departure, and examining the fantastical notions the West had developed of the East. Marco Polo was born in 1254, joining his father on a journey to China in 1271. He spent the next twenty years travelling in the service of Kublai Khan. There is evidence that Marco travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire and it is fairly certain he visited India. He wrote his famous Travels whilst a prisoner in Genoa. Nigel Cliff was previously a theatre and film critic for The Times and a regular writer for The Economist, among other publications, and now writes historical nonfiction books. His first book, The Shakespeare Riots, was published in 2007 and shortlisted for the Washington-based National Award for Arts Writing. His second book, The Last Crusade: Vasco da Gama and the Birth of the Modern World appeared in 2011 and was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781016094757

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1101157658

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His journey through the East began in 1271—when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His acceptance into the court of the great emperor Kublai Khan, and his service to the vast and dazzling Mongol empire, led him to places as far away as Tibet and Burma, lands rich with gems and gold and silk, but virtually unknown to Europeans. Later, as a prisoner of war, Marco Polo would record the details of his remarkable travels across harsh deserts, great mountain ranges, and dangerous seas, as well as of his encounters with beasts and birds, plants and people. His amazing chronicle is both fascinating and awe-inspiring—and still serves as the most vivid depiction of the mysterious East in the Middle Ages. Edited and with an Introduction by Milton Rugoff and an Afterword by Howard Mittelmark