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# The Travels of Marco Polo

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Review: AP World History Review:a description of your opinion of the book - I was highly impressed by this book. I had no prior knowledge of its existance untill I had to read it in order to complete this review and an essay. Marco Polo describes ever aspect of his travels in great detail. It was very interesting to see first hand reports of the daily way of life of people who lived 800 years ago on the other side of the globe. Iwould recommend this book to a fellow student. My generation doesn't read nearly enough so I would recommend any book that I have read to another student. It is a fantastic first hand account of the ancient world. It is well written and very fluent. It was not a bore, but rather more like hearing a collection of wonderful stories from a wise elderly family member who has seen an innumerable amount of things in their life. It is not a timeline or a history textbook, these are very interesting and intimate descriptions of ancient people, their customs and their homes.
Review: Good book, fun to read, and printed in a good edition - I first read this book when a teacher lent it to me in 7th grade, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was fascinating to read his adventures. As he traveled along, he explained each town he went to, and the explanations and information were interesting to read, seeing what each town was like, who they were under the rule of, and so on. The middle part of the book explains some of his journeys and events while he was visiting the Great Khan, and the latter parts explaining his trip back to Europe by sea. This edition also includes footnotes, which the edition my teacher had didn't, correcting some of the mistakes and giving more context to the text. The language and construction of the sentences are a bit more formal and declarative than works one would more commonly read today, but it wasn't difficult to understand or comprehend. The beginning of the book focuses on Marco's first adventure to China with his father and uncle, and overall, the entire beginning was a bit hard to get through, but once you get past it, it becomes more enjoyable. Overall, I would recommend this book.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #46,684 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #60 in Expeditions & Discoveries World History (Books) #63 in Travelogues & Travel Essays #137 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (939) |
| Dimensions  | 5.09 x 0.88 x 7.78 inches |
| Edition  | Reissue |
| ISBN-10  | 0140440577 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0140440577 |
| Item Weight  | 9.6 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 384 pages |
| Publication date  | September 30, 1958 |
| Publisher  | Penguin Classics |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AP World History Review:a description of your opinion of the book
*by J***E on December 3, 2011*

I was highly impressed by this book. I had no prior knowledge of its existance untill I had to read it in order to complete this review and an essay. Marco Polo describes ever aspect of his travels in great detail. It was very interesting to see first hand reports of the daily way of life of people who lived 800 years ago on the other side of the globe. Iwould recommend this book to a fellow student. My generation doesn't read nearly enough so I would recommend any book that I have read to another student. It is a fantastic first hand account of the ancient world. It is well written and very fluent. It was not a bore, but rather more like hearing a collection of wonderful stories from a wise elderly family member who has seen an innumerable amount of things in their life. It is not a timeline or a history textbook, these are very interesting and intimate descriptions of ancient people, their customs and their homes.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book, fun to read, and printed in a good edition
*by J***R on June 21, 2015*

I first read this book when a teacher lent it to me in 7th grade, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was fascinating to read his adventures. As he traveled along, he explained each town he went to, and the explanations and information were interesting to read, seeing what each town was like, who they were under the rule of, and so on. The middle part of the book explains some of his journeys and events while he was visiting the Great Khan, and the latter parts explaining his trip back to Europe by sea. This edition also includes footnotes, which the edition my teacher had didn't, correcting some of the mistakes and giving more context to the text. The language and construction of the sentences are a bit more formal and declarative than works one would more commonly read today, but it wasn't difficult to understand or comprehend. The beginning of the book focuses on Marco's first adventure to China with his father and uncle, and overall, the entire beginning was a bit hard to get through, but once you get past it, it becomes more enjoyable. Overall, I would recommend this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Size of the World
*by S***E on September 12, 2007*

It has been a pleasure to revisit the travels of Marco Polo. I was transfixed by these stories of travel and adventure when I was a child, and never questioned the veracity of the narrative. I know today that the narrative has been corrupted over the centuries, that "The Travels" can scarcely be used as an historical reference, and that a more tantalizing and complete manuscript has probably been lost to the ages. Still, there are glimpses and insights within the narrative that could only have come from first-hand experience, and these describe an enormous, exotic world that titillates even today, while readers in the 13th and 14th centuries must have been enthralled. I was most keen this time around to Polo's descriptions of the cultures and wildlife he encountered, of the whales and lions and leopards and bears--he even describes a white bear, and the people who hunted it were surely of the group often called Eskimos. He describes dog-sledding in the far north and the cannibalistic practices of the people of Java far to the south, both of which are extant in our current era. There are also the fascinating observations of the Mongol Empire, of that group of nomadic people who somehow rose up, like an event in an Isaac Asimov novel, to conquer much of the known world. Somewhat depressingly, though, are Polo's observations of the tensions that existed between the Islamic and Christian worlds, tensions rooted in the competition for hegemony over trade in the Far East. Seven hundred years later, these tensions are still acting themselves out. This translation by Ronald Latham from 1958 includes an introduction that puts Marco Polo's life in context with events and includes footnotes to help the reader make sense of the myriad manuscripts that make up the travels of Marco Polo. This is a somewhat dry read; even Latham comments on the paucity of skill employed by Polo's chronicler. Once I put my mind in context with the narrative, however, I was able to roll with the repetition and sycophancy and enjoy the text.

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