Transcript Marco Polo The Travels

Marco Polo
The Travels
Title: The Travels
Author: Marco Polo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 384
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 0140440577
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Size: 9.3 MB
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Description
A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's
seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was
the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after
which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West
he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this
book. His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad:
unfamiliar religions, customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; the precious gems,
exotic vegetation and wild beasts of faraway lands. Evoking a remote and long-vanished world
with colour and immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the then unknown
East and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time. For this edition - the first
completely new English translation of the Travels in over fifty years - Nigel Cliff has gone back
to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh, authoritative new version. The volume
also contains invaluable editorial materials, including an introduction describing the world as it
stood on the eve of Polo's departure, and examining the fantastical notions the West had
developed of the East. Marco Polo was born in 1254, joining his father on a journey to China in
1271. He spent the next twenty years travelling in the service of Kublai Khan. There is evidence
that Marco travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire and it is fairly certain he visited India. He
wrote his famous Travels whilst a prisoner in Genoa. Nigel Cliff was previously a theatre and
film critic for The Times and a regular writer for The Economist, among other publications, and
now writes historical nonfiction books. His first book, The Shakespeare Riots, was published in
2007 and shortlisted for the Washington-based National Award for Arts Writing. His second
book, The Last Crusade: Vasco da Gama and the Birth of the Modern World appeared in 2011
and was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
Insightful reviews
Will: I read this as I was travelling through Mongolia. There are some entertaining gems tucked
away in this book: colourful and unique descriptions of cities and peoples now changed beyond
recognition, but to get to these one must wade through long sections of drivel, endless repetition
of the same stock phrases and a somewhat haphazard narration. I don't know why but I'd
assumed that a writer almost contemporaneous with Dante might have had a better grasp of
style. Still, this is a unique book and hence deserves an extra star!
Tlsmith: A translation of Marco Polo's account of his travels through the Middle East and Asia. I
have spoken to some people who think that this book is too dry (which may make sense since
Polo was a merchant and the stated purpose of his book is to let other merchants know what
products and resources were available in these new lands). It could be the translation that I
read (I chose the right one here) but it was in no sense dry or boring. Imagining Polo traveling
through Baghdad, across the Gobi Desert, and through small Chinese fishing villages is just
amazing. The artwork in this book is also great-- beautiful woodcuts. It also pairs very well with
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
Arwen56: Libro decisamente anomalo, direi, per diversi motivi:
1) In primo luogo, non è stato neppure redatto nel volgare italiano, bensì, a quanto mi risulta,
principalmente in francese antico (lingua d'oïl). Di conseguenza, il testo che leggiamo è una
delle tante traduzioni esistenti. Quanto possa essere fedele all’originale è da vedersi.
2) Non è neanche stato scritto dallo stesso Marco Polo, ma dettato a Rustico da Pisa nel
carcere in cui entrambi allora si trovavano. Quanto sia possibile attribuire al primo o sia invece
frutto dell’elaborazione del secondo è dunque abbastanza dubbio.
3) Il testo originale non esiste più. Esistono invece circa centocinquanta versioni diverse,
ognuna delle quali ha subito l’intervento di chi l’ha rimaneggiata.
4) In tempi recenti, sono sorti diversi dubbi sulla veridicità di quanto, in teoria, vissuto in prima
persona da Marco Polo, poiché non si hanno riscontri oggettivi a ciò che narra.
In fin dei conti, direi che ci troviamo di fronte ad una di quelle opere “spurie”, o “corali” se
preferite, in cui il confine tra chi ha detto questo o fatto quello oppure tra chi ha partecipato o
non ha partecipato a un determinato evento è molto labile. Al posto del nome di Marco Polo
potremmo in fondo metterne un altro qualsiasi, chè la sostanza non cambierebbe comunque. Il
risultato è una sorta di sovrascrittura continua, in cui la realtà va persa a favore delle personali
inclinazioni di chi vi ha posto mano, seguendo l’agio delle proprie convinzioni e delle proprie
credenze. Una sorta di canovaccio, in base al quale i diversi attori hanno recitato la loro parte.
Mike: possibly my expectancies have been too high, yet this was once an oddly disappointing
book. I say "oddly" since it has the entire parts of what can be a nice trip narrative: unique
locales, narratives of people tales/myths, descriptions of battles, information of the customs of
far off (and occasionally lost) civilizations, etc. And yet...it was once stale, repetitive, and at
times, a bit dull. now not even the "true tales that Polo heard from trustworthy sources" (i.e.
outrageous legends and myths) may carry my curiosity peppered among monotonous, dry
descriptions of landscapes and peoples that i assumed will be fascinating. by the point I
reached the crazy/funny stuff (the look for Adam, the mountain the place you'll be able to "see"
Noah's ark, the dog-people, etc.), I felt just like the pay-off wasn't worthy it. i discovered the
main fascinating sections to be on Kubilai Khan and India, might be simply because those have
been the parts such a lot general to Polo. with regards to the former, I quickly needed I have
been in its place studying a e-book at the background of the Khans! i believe the main concrete
instance this book's bait-and-switch comes while Polo mentions in passing his remark of a
"unicorn," whereas telling readers that he might quickly supply us information later within the
book. Well, I stored analyzing to determine simply the place this is able to lead, in simple terms
to discover that Polo is describing *SPOILER ALERT* a fucking rhinoceros! Normally, this might
make me chuckle; yet by means of this aspect in Polo's narrative, i used to be simply annoyed.
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dbd: Very fascinating old account of Polo's travels to Mongolia and China, He spent even more
time there than I had known, now not it all by means of design. He was once extremely popular
through Kublai Kahn for his wisdom of western tradition which used to be of significant curiosity
to the Kahn. Polo was once surprised, as was once I, via the sophistication of the Mongolian
culture.
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