The Travels of Marco Polo - Wikipedia The Travels of Marco Polo, also known as The Book of the Marvels of the World (French: Livres des Merveilles du Monde) and by its Italian name Il Milione ("The Million"), is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by the Venetian explorer Marco Polo
Marco Polo | Biography, Accomplishments, Facts, Travels, Influence . . . Marco Polo, Venetian merchant and adventurer who traveled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years His account of those travels, known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, is a classic
The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Marco Polo and da Pisa . . . "The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1" by Marco Polo and Rustichello da Pisa is a 13th-century travelogue written between 1298-1299 This legendary account chronicles Polo's epic journey through Asia from 1271 to 1295 and his remarkable experiences at the court of Kublai Khan
The travels of Marco Polo; - Archive. org When Marco returned from the East, Europe was sunk in profound ignorance, and most of the regions which he had traversed were wholly unknown : hence doubts of the authenticity of his statements arose, and had long an extensive prevalence
THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO (1298) - Bloomsbury THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO (1298)1 gh level for nearly two decades His detailed, highly objective, and mostly accurate observations3 were written down by a cell-mate of great literary skill when Polo was taken as a prison
Marco Polo - World History Encyclopedia Marco Polo is famous for travelling overland from Venice to China in the last quarter of the 13th century, staying at the Mongol court of Kublai Khan, returning home, and writing a book about his experiences
Marco Polo’s Travels - World History Commons This image shows Marco Polo’s travels [on a modern map] While traveling to these new lands he provided detailed descriptions of the lands he encountered and sometimes his perceptions of the people that lived on those lands
Marco Polo: The travel writer who shocked medieval Europe After returning to Italy, Polo collaborated with the writer Rustichello da Pisa to chronicle his journey The resulting book, “Il Milione” (The Million), known in English as “ The Travels of Marco Polo,” eventually became a medieval bestseller
The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 | Project Gutenberg In 1867, on his return from London, Yule commenced systematic work on his long projected new edition of the Travels of Marco Polo It was apparently in this year that the scheme first took definite form, but it had long been latent in his mind