Image: The book of Ser Marco Polo - the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East (1903) (14582831830)

Description: Identifier: bookofsermarcopo00polo (find matches)Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the EastYear: 1903 (1900s)Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travelsPublisher: London : John MurrayContributing Library: Harold B. Lee LibraryDigitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young UniversityView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:(To face p. i. MARCO POLOS ITINERARIES,N° 1. (Prologue , Book I, Chapters 1-36 ; and Book IV.) Names not used by Polo are in brackets. First Route of the Elder Polos ++++++ Outward Route of Marco Polo ------- Homeward Route of Marco Polo = = = = = = = = =Text Appearing After Image:IMAGE: Marco Polo's Itineraries No I. (Prologue , Book 1, Chapters 1-36 ; and Book IV.) Names not used by Polo are in brackets. First Route of the Elder Polos. Outward Route of Marco Polo. Homeward Route of Marco Polo. - 40 30 40 /. i. THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO, PROLOGUE. Great Princes, Emperors, and Kings, Dukes and Marquises, Counts, Knights, and Burgesses! and People of all degrees who desire to get knowledge of the various races of mankind and of the diversities of the sundry regions of the World, take this Book and cause it to be read to you. For ye shall find therein all kinds of wonderful things, and the divers histories of the Great Hermenia, and of Persia, and of the Land of the Tartars, and of India, and of many another country of which our Book doth speak, particularly and in regular succession, according to the description of Messer Marco Polo, a wise and noble citizen of Venice,as he saw them with his own eyes. Some things indeed there be therein which he beheld not ; but these he heard from men of credit and veracity. And we shall set down things seen as seen, and things heard as heard only, so that no jot of falsehood may mar the truth of our Book, and that all who shall read it or hear it read may put fulNote About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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