| - Book Title: The Travels of Marco Polo
- Author: Marco Polo Ronald Latham
- ISBN: MW009532827
- Publisher: Folio Society
- Year Published: 1992
- Our Normal Price: £30.80 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- 10% Discounted Price: £27.72 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- Description: Folio Society 1992: third printing of the first 1968 edition: red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on black spine: red slip case: approximately 6.25 by 10 inches tall: 310 pages including index: text translated by Robert Latham in 1958: lettering by Lacey Everett : endpapers and text maps by K C. Jordans: miniatures reproduced from the Bodleian Library. Synopsis: The 13th century travels of Marco Polo, concurrently defined as a ' Description of the World ', which took place after the rise of the Mongol/Tatar Empire brought Europe and the Far East into direct contact. At a time when the Mongol tribes ruled Eurasia ( excluding part of Indo- China , India, Arabia, and Western Europe) Marco Polo voyaged from the Polar Sea to Java, and from Zanzibar to Japan. Stretches of this journey were unrepeated by any other European for 600 years. Contents as followed: -- Introduction. Prologue. The Middle East. The Road to Cathay. Kubilia Khan. From Peking to Bengal. From Peking to Amoy. From China to India. India. The Arabian Sea. North regions and tartan wars. Epilogue. Genealogical table of Mongol Imperial House. Index. Maps. Condition very clean and good overall/almost as new.
- Condition: Collectable- Very Good
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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