Marco Polo Travels
$53.91
- Hardcover
600 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2008
Summary
A new introduction by Colin Thubron describes why Marco Polo remains one of the most fascinating and informative introductions to China.
Marco Polo set off on his travels from Venice as a young man in 1271, and returned home in 1295 after spending 24 years away, 17 of them in China. He is one of the few early adventurers whose name nearly everyone knows. His book was one of the best-loved works of the Middle Ages, and has remained popular ever since.
At a time when China is ag…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593135 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593133 |
| Author: | Colin Thubron |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 576g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 134mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Colin Thubron
Peter Harris is Senior Fellow of the Asian Studies Institute at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the translator and editor of Zhou Daguan’s ‘A Record of Cambodia’ and has edited Zen Poems in the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets series.
Colin Thubron is the finest travel writer currently writing in English. His Behind the Wall (1988) won both the Hawthornden Prize and Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His most recent book Shadow of the Silk Road (2006) is an account of his epic 7,000-mile journey revisiting the terrain of his Behind the Wall and The Lost Heart of Asia.
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