Receive a special member icon and vote in otw elections. Read marco polo books like marco polo and the travels of marco polo volume 1 for free with a free 30day trial. Marco polo foi um mercador, embaixador e explorador italiano. His late thirteenth century account has been translated numerous times, one of the most popular editions being henry yules tr.
He died in venice at almost 70 years of age, on january 8, 24. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The travels of marco polo, the venetian 1298 pdf, archived from the original pdf on february 19, 2009. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Marco polos reports offered the ideal background for illustration, as people in europe had always been curious to know. Learn from marco polo experts like john man and marco polo. Marco polo was a thirteenthcentury venetian explorer, arguably the worlds most welltraveled explorer, and the travels of marco polo chronicles his journey through asia as. Este, com o seu pai e tio, percorreu a rota da seda pelo oriente, incluindo a china. The illuminated manuscript on marco polos fascinating and adventurous travels ranks among the most famous manuscripts of the middle ages and is considered a highlight of french book decoration. Cristobal colon y marco polo biografia marco polo agitacion. Sure the story of marco polo is a fascinating one and mr jennings did maintain my interest for 80% percent of the time. He recorded his adventures in a book published as the travels of marco polo. Marco polo was the frst western traveller to speak of burma mien.
Marco polo ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. Because marcos family was wealthy, he received a good education, learning. Even then, the city where he was bornvenicewas a center for commerce and trading in the mediterranean region. Marco polo ebooks epub and pdf format marco polo ebooks. There are also stories and various documents which point to his ancestry originating in korcula, croatia. More than seven hundred years ago, marco polo traveled from the medieval city of venice to the fabled kingdom of the great kublai khan, seeing new sights and riches that no westerner had ever before witnessed. Due to your generosity, we reached our goal on day one. O seu pai chamavase nicolau polo e o seu tio chamavase maffeo.
The travels of marco polo volume 1 the project gutenberg ebook of the travels of marco polo volume 1 by marco polo and rustichello of pisa this ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. Choice of highquality ebooks, selection of free ebooks for children, digital reading tips and advice, buying recommendations, help and explanations on how to download files. Rarely have secular topics had such an intensive echo. Marco polos birth and growing up according to one authority, the polo family were great nobles originating on the coast of dalmatia. The travels of marco polo, by marco polo and rustichello of pisa pdf. The gobi desert now lay between the venetians and kublai khan. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. While i did enjoy the journeyer i would have to say that it was not a great read. Great princes, emperors, and kings, dukes and marquises, counts, knights, and burgesses. His account of those travels, known in english as the travels of marco polo, is a. Marco polo, venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from europe to asia. Niccolo and maffeo had established a trading outpost on the island of curzola, off the coast of dalmatia. Marco also had another uncle who lived in constantinople and crimea and was engaged in commerce. Since marco polo was broadly quoted as saying that he had reported only half of what he had seen and done, jennings took that quote as the springboard to tell the other half in the journeyer.
Wonders and whoppers following in marco polos footsteps through asia leads our intrepid author to some surprising conclusions. Download as docx, pdf, txt or read online from scribd. Everyman s library edited by ernest rhys travel and topography marco polo s travels with an introduction by john masefield the publishers of jlbefr will be pleased to send freely to all applicants a list of the published and projected volumes. What annoyed me, however, is that the story is not vastly different from aztec. In 5 he is mentioned in a venetian document among local sea captains regarding the payment of taxes. Marco polo was supposedly born in the venetian republic, in what is now venice, italy.
Marco polos book polo could have been forgotten to history. Marco polo was an italian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through asia along the. Marco polo, 2014 fanfiction archive with over 3 stories. Marco polo was seventeen when he set out for china, and fortyone when he came back. His father, nicolo, and his uncle, maffeo, were merchants who had seats in the great council and were enrolled with the noblemen of venice. Full text of the travels of marco polo the venetian see other formats. Cor hendriks, september 2017 the book of marco polo. The travels of marco polo the famous explorer marco polo was born in the year 1254 to a family of merchants.
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