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The Travels of Marco Polo Paperback – September 30, 1958

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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 Kubilai 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. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Marco Polo travelled to China in 1271 and spent the next twenty years in the service of Kublai Khan. He wrote his famous Travels after returning home, whilst a prisoner in Genoa.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics; Reissue edition (September 30, 1958)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140440577
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140440577
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 790L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches
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Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2019
I have compared this edition with Cliff (Penguin), Latham (Penguin), Marsden and Yule translations and am able to say this edition is the best one (by now) for it is the most complete print and translation is scholarly accurate. The introduction is concise but very informative.
As an Iranian and a native Persian speaker. When it comes to the Iranian (Persian) names and geography, both in today Iran and in places that used to be part of ancient Iran, I found Latham's translation seriously inaccurate. It is very much like a man's loose take of history; for example: Latham's frequently names Turkey, while the Republic of Turkey was born in 1923 for the first time!! In Marco Polo's era, this part of the world was ruled by local Seljuk warlords, Mongols, etc before it was called Ottoman empire almost 200 years later. There are numerous other impermissible inaccuracies throughout the Latham's translation.
Yule's introduction has many sections, is very boring and, at some points, becomes very unrelated. The text is also not complete.
Unfortunately, an ultimate edition that has a detailed but related as well as interesting biography of Marco Polo, great citations/footnotes, plentiful maps, analysis of accuracy (including estimation of the influence of Rusticello's style & words) is still missing; however, this edition is a reliable and I think most useful edition.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2021
REVISED REVIEW: I've long owned the paperback version of the Signet Classics edition. It's affordable, contains some basic notes, and, unlike a lot of the lazy scans of public domain editions, is based on more modern scholarship. I originally rated this Kindle edition 1-star because it appeared to be missing the Prologue written by Rustichello (Polo's scribe) that is contained in the paperback version. This would have been a grave omission since the Prologue contains the story of how the Polos came to China and returned. However, I just discovered it does indeed contain the Prologue. It is just not listed in the Kindle table of contents like it is in the paperback. While you cannot navigate to the Prologue from the table of contents, you can still get there by flipping through all the pages of the editor's introduction. It's tucked away at location 517. Issues of navigation aside, I think this is best budget edition of Polo available for students or casual readers. Sure it doesn't contain the voluminous notes of the 1903 Yule-Cordier translation, but it's perfectly adequate.
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Reviewed in the United States 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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Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2022
I am very disappointed in the structure of this book. It makes it very difficult to read and figure out which parts are the original book. I am at page 260, and just barely starting the actual content of the book. The first section of the book is a prolonged discussion about the historical significance of the events and details about Marco Polo and his family. There are frequent commentaries in Latin and French.
There is only one map so far! This map was probably part of the original book but is very hard to read. Since all the commentary talks about places that no longer exist and how far they are from each other, many detailed and clear maps would really help with the historical discussion.
I am enjoying the historical discussion but would have loved to have the actual content of the original book written as a seamless section for clarity and just plan enjoyability.
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2024
Awesome read
Parveen Bhasin
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic tale
Reviewed in India on March 25, 2023
it is a general book and very classic title with interesting genre while starting the book for read gradually..
Adrian J. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars An adventure for all times and all ages
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2016
The Travels of Marco Polo may be perhaps the most challenging travelogue ever put together. While Marco Polo was not the first to write about lands distant and alien to one’s own, he wrote of a journey of immense challenge and difficulty. Difficulty that is difficult to appreciate in our modern world.
First of all, the most notable controversy; was Maro Polo a fraud? This reader disagrees. While some regard it as suspect that he traveled to Yuan Dynasty China and did not mention the largely Han practice of foot binding, one needs to remember that he was employed in the court of Kubilai Khan, a Mongol Emperor who headed a very multicultural court.
While this reader is not a first class scholar of medieval China, the narrative through which Marco Polo describes the China of then corresponds somewhat to the cultural mosaic of today. While in the Southwest of China, he describes people of rather relaxed sexual practices, which have an eery similarity to the Naxi of Yunnan Province, he describes a religious mosaic that regularly alternates between either Christian, Muslim or, as he terms it, idolatory, he describes funerary practices, the choice of clothing, and dietary practices. Therefore, this reader rules favorably in the authenticity of Marco Polo’s account.
The book in itself is mainly a travelogue, and describes everywhere from Armenia and the Caspian Sea region, China, India, the Middle East, and in the final chapter, Russia.
Toward the end, the book becomes something of a commentary of the then current affairs, describing a conflict in what was then an area close to Russia’s frontier, and earlier parts of the book describe the conflict and intrigue in the court of the Great Khan. However, the book, for the most part, is a travelogue.
The book is an immensely entertaining and readable account. With just simple relaxation and the right approach, one feels themselves there with Marco Polo, exploring unknown lands, and traveling a greater distance traveled by no man since the creation, in the words of the introduction.
Marco Polo’s Travels, or to give it it’s actual title, Il Milione, is a timeless classic. A timeless work of inquiry and observation that is both intriguing and fascinating, and a pleasure for the soul.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Un travail d'entomologiste...
Reviewed in France on July 1, 2013
Une relation archi détaillée des périgrinations de l'immense Marco Polo.. Agrémentée de centaines de "footnotes" ( notes de bas de page.)..Difficile de garder son attention, totalement en éveil .. D'autant que si l'on en croit une autre des notes de l'auteur, cette relation de ses voyages exploratoires n'a pas été écrite par Marco Polo lui même, mais il l'aurait dictée- pendant qu'il était en prison- à un compagnon de cellule , parait il porté à l'exagération.. L'homme qu'a vu l'homme qu'a vu l'ours ?
Ah bon...
Il n'empêche, certaines pages sont bien intéressantes
Rupak Medhi
3.0 out of 5 stars Marco Polo abridged...
Reviewed in India on January 20, 2017
I brought the book as I love to read travelogue. The chapters are very short, hence it fails to satisfy the thirst.. the contents has left me high and dry. Going by the quantum of the travel Marco Polo undertook the book should have been more descriptive. Too much information is squeezed in with very short chapters.The book has failed to quench my thirst.
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