The Travels of Marco Polo

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• Magic mountains

  The Travels of Marco Polo, translated by William Marsden (Norton, £10.99) When this edition of the book dropped through the letterbox, I was mildly intrigued. When a reissue of the Penguin Classics edition followed a couple of days later, I took it a ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Beijing bound

  The Travels of Marco Polo Read by Walter Covell (11½hrs unabridged, Audible.co.uk, members £7.99, non-members £30.85) With the Olympics only weeks away, it would have been useful to have an audiobook about - well, anything to do with China really, bu ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  "The people here are idolaters who cremate their dead, are subject to the Great Khan and use paper money."

  You can only read this description, or variations thereof, so many times before your mind gets tired of hearing the authors description of the towns and provinces he visited in China. This b ... (continue)

  "The people here are idolaters who cremate their dead, are subject to the Great Khan and use paper money."

  You can only read this description, or variations thereof, so many times before your mind gets tired of hearing the authors description of the towns and provinces he visited in China. This book was not what I expected. I was expecting to read about Marco Polo's adventures in China, what he did while he was there, how he interacted with the Chinese Emporer Genghis Khan and the rest of the Imperial Court and other events that happened to him while he was in China. Instead this book is more of a tour guide to and from and in China, much of which I found unbelieveable. While many of the places he mentions do actually exist, I find this book has more value as a great work of medieval fiction.

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• English Books
• Hardcover 408 Pages
• ISBN-10: 160206024X
• ISBN-13: 9781602060241
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics
• Pub date: Dec 01, 2006
• Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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