Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Polo’s life and adventures
* Features the complete extant works of Marco Polo, in both English translation and Giovanni Battista Ramusio’s original Italian text
* The complete Yule-Cordier 1903 translation, with hundreds of illustrations and footnotes
* Concise introduction to the text
* Superior formatting
* Easily locate the sections you want to read with individual contents tables
* Features four bonus biographies — discover Polo’s medieval world
CONTENTS:
The Translation
Brief Introduction to Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo (c. 1300)
The Original Text
The Italian Text
The Biographies
Marco Polo (1832) by James Augustus St. John
Sir Marco Polo, the Venetian, and His Travels in Asia (1893) by W. H. Davenport Adams
Marco Polo (1904) by John H. Haaren
Marco Polo (1911) by Henry Yule and Charles Raymond Beazley