题名:
The travels of Marco Polo   The travels of Marco Polo / edited and with an introduction by Milton Rugoff ; with a new afterword by Howard Mittelmark ,
ISBN:
0-451-52951-0 价格:
ISBN:
978-0-451-52951-0 价格:
语种:
eng
载体形态:
xxix, 297 pages 17 cm
出版发行:
出版地: New York, N.Y 出版社: Signet Classics 出版日期: 2004
内容提要:
His pilgrimage through the East began in 1271 when, still a teenager, he found himself traversing the most exotic lands-from the dazzling Mongol empire to Tibet and Burma. This fascinating chronicle still serves as the most vivid depiction of the mysterious East in the Middle Ages. This brilliant volume vividly brings to life the mysterious East in the Middle Ages by chronicling the author's journey from Venice to Asia, during which he met people from a wide range of cultures, and encountered a vast array of landscapes, plants, and animals 
主题词:
Voyages and travels  
主题词:
Mongols   History
主要责任者:
Rugoff, Milton Rugoff, Milton
版次:
1st Signet Classics print
附注:
Includes index 
内容附注:
Introduction -- Principal figures of the house of Genghis Khan -- Map: Travels of Marco Polo -- Prologue -- Visited or heard of on the journey from lesser Armenia to the court of the great Khan at Shangtu -- Great Kublai khan and of Provinces visited on journeys westward and southward -- Sea of Chin and the great island of Zipangu, which lies to the east of Cathay, and of the islands of Java, Angaman and Zeilan, which are in lesser India. Greater India, the richest and noblest country in the world. Islands of the males and the females, Socotra, Madagascar, and Zanzibar, and the provinces of Abyssinia and Aden, which comprise middle India -- Region of darkness, the province of Russia, great Turkey, and the war between the tartars of the west and the tartars of the east -- Afterword -- Index 
著者:
Polo, Marco Polo, Marco