Marco Polo: The Travels of Marco Polo

Marco Polo, the great post-immolator of fateful encounters, takes his father and uncle on the east journey, leaving his 25-year journey through western Asia, Central Asia, China and India, and returns to his hometown of Venice. Then, as the war broke out between Venice and Genoa, he joins the Venetian army and becomes a prisoner, and in prison he meets up with the novelist Rustzello. Marco Polo's experience is translated by Rusticelo, and finally by the great Classic. The appendix is all 248 verses, divided into eight sections for the convenience of readers. The captain explains how Marco Polo left for his journey and returned to his home, and the background of writing books. Chapter one deals with Western Asia, through the Great Armenia and Turkmenia, to Iraq and Persia. Chapter 2 describes Central Asia crossing the Tarim basin in Afghanistan. Chapter 3 describes in detail the capital of Kublai Khan, the capital city of Shanghai and the shape of the capital, and the reign of the Great Khan. Chapter 4 describes northern China, four thousand people in the south and Myanmar, and chapter five deals with the South Korean area, which was then called Manji. Chapter 6 describes the Indian landscape that was seen and heard on the way home to Venice, and last, chapter 7 describes the Great Plains of Central Asia and Russia and the Arctic. Marco Polo, thus comprehensively dealt with all the known worlds around the 13th century. The appendix is not just a travel machine, but a 13th-century global cultural manual written from the Western perspective.

Korean title: 동방견문록

Korean author: 마르코 폴로

Korean publisher: 동서문화사

ISBN-13: 9788949718095