The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo
Translated by Henry Yule
- Length
- 52 mornings, about 2,000 words a reading
About the book
The Travels of Marco Polo is the account of a Venetian who, by the book’s own reckoning, spent some twenty-six years in Asia in the late thirteenth century, much of it in the service of Cublay, the Great Kaan, the Mongol ruler of China. In 1298, while a prisoner in Genoa, Polo had his story written down by a fellow prisoner, Rusticiano of Pisa. This is Henry Yule’s English translation in its third edition of 1903, revised by Henri Cordier, without Yule’s notes.
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