Marco Polo and His World

Sharon Kinoshita (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-937-1 (ISBN)

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A vivid account of Marco Polo's astounding, continent-spanning adventures.

Aged seventeen, Marco Polo left his home in Venice on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century. Imprisoned in Genoa five years later, he collaborated with Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa on a work they called The Description of the World. Their book recounted 'all the greatest marvels and great diversities of Greater Armenia, Persia, the Tartars, India, and many other provinces'. In Marco Polo and His World Sharon Kinoshita brings these marvels to life, describing the rich commodities, plants, people and animals that Marco encountered and recorded. Copiously illustrated, and ranging from Venice, Genoa and Pisa to Khanbaliq, Quinsai and Zaytun, this is a vivid account of Marco Polo's astounding adventures.

Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in Medieval French Literature, Mediterranean Studies and the Global Middle Ages. Her publications include an annotated translation of Marco Polo's Description of the World (2016).

Introduction
1 Marco Polo and His World
2 The Book of the Great Khan
3 The Book of Marvels
4 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Merchants and their World
5 Portrait Gallery: Marco Polo's Contemporaries
Afterword
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Medieval Lives
Zusatzinfo	58 illustrations, 50 in colour
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-78914-937-1 / 1789149371
ISBN-13	978-1-78914-937-1 / 9781789149371
Zustand	Neuware