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Marco Polo’s account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recorded customs, natural history, strange sights, historical legends, and much more. From the dazzling courts of Kublai Khan to the perilous deserts of Persia, no book contains a richer magazine of marvels than the Travels.

This edition, selected and edited by the great scholar Manuel Komroff, also features the classic and stylistically brilliant Marsden translation, revised and corrected, as well as Komroff’s Introduction to the 1926 edition. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (38)

Kindle edition lacks navigation
The kindle edition lacks any navigation features. There's no table of contents, no links to notes, no index.It's a large book, and the kindle edition doesn't allow casual reading.

Kindle Edition
This book is not good on the Kindle.First it took about 10 minutes of hitting Next Page in order to get through all the introductions.Second this edition has 2 pages of footnotes for every page of the actual book. The text and notes are the same font so it is hard to distinguish between them.Maybe it is of interest to an academic but to a casual reader it is a bit annoying.It was only 99 cents so I guess it is worth the inconvenience.

The Travels of Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo was an extremely educational novel. I chose to read this book because my AP World History class was to read a book and then write a review over it, and I needed all the help in reviewing the course as I could get before the AP exam. Reading this book helped to teach me how life along the silk road was by connecting with because I could relate to the actual feelings of the author. This book was written by Marco Polo himself, which allowed him to contribute the real thoughts of the traveler, instead of having a hitory book format where the content in emotionless and simply rambles details. With text books, the information goes in one ear and right out the other for me, however by reading this book I was actually able to comprehend the information provided.
The Travels of Marco Polo contained bits of info on things such as Africa and India and their culture, China in all its wealth, along with the Mongol empire. When reading this book, you may want to watch exactly what you believe because although it may be true, there are many facts Polo provides that may very well be untrue. This book is great for reading if you want to learn a lot without the dullness of text book like writing, however I don't think it's very good for a pleasure read unless you're really into history.

horrible edition
This is perhaps the worst edition of any book that I have ever encountered.It is a scan of an older edition, but the mis-scanned bits have not been touched up or corrected in any way.The headers and notes are indecipherable from the body of the text, there are incomplete sentences, and at one point the text bleeds off the page.The one benefit of this text is that it allows students to see what a truly bad edition looks like, making them realize, in real time, the importance of using a good edition of something.

I was hoping to get an inexpensive version of Polo's Travels for my great books class, and ended up with the Modern Library Classics version.

Negative five stars!

Made someone happy
The book arrived in good condition and in time to give on Christmas.The recipiant was very happy to receive it. ... Read more