The Travels of Marco Polo - Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9781518837975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 302 str.

Marco Polo; Rustichello Of Pisa

Opis

The amount of appropriate material, and of acquaintance with the mediaeval geography of some parts of Asia, which was acquired during the compilation of a work of kindred character for the Hakluyt Society, 1] could hardly fail to suggest as a fresh labour in the same field the preparation of a new English edition of Marco Polo. Indeed one kindly critic (in the Examiner) laid it upon the writer as a duty to undertake that task