The Travels of Marco Polo
Subtitle: The Venetian (Kessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: May 4, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9781419156625
Subjects: Asia - General; History; Mongols; Travel / Asia / General; Travel; Travel - Foreign
First sentence: YE emperors, kings, dukes, marquises, earls, and knights, and all other people desirous of knowing the diversities of the races of mankind, as well as the diversities of kingdoms, provinces, and regions of all parts of the East, read through this book, and ye will find in it the greatest and most marvellous characteristics of the peoples especially of Armenia, Persia, India, and Tartary, as they are severally related in the present work by Marco Polo, a wise and learned citizen of Venice, who states distinctly what things he saw and what things he heard from others.