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The Travels of Marco Polo:

The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition : Including the Unabridged Third Edition (1903) of Henry Yule's Annotated Translation, as Revised by Henri Cordier, Together with Cordier's Later Volume of Notes and Addenda (1920).
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Courier Dover Publications, 1993 - Travel - 896 pages
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. One of the greatest books of all time — a vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, political systems, much more. 200 illustrations, 32 maps and site plans.
  

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Contents

INTERIOR
3
Artists in Tattooing 5 Position of the Porcelain manu
4
CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF SINDAFU
36
CONCERNING THE PROVINCE or TEBET
42
FURlHER DISCOURSE CONCERNING TEBET
49
Cmns or Pauxm sun Cum
52
or CARAJAN
64
DISCOURSES or THE Paovmcs or CAUGIGU
116
KINGDOM or TANA
395
XXXl DISCOURSEIi or THE Two IsLANDs cALLED MALE
404
CoNcERNINo THE IsLAND or MADEIGASCAR
411
CoNcERNINo Tm IsLAND or ZANGHIBAR A WoRD
422
TREATINo or TIIE GREAT PRovINcE or ABASH wmcu
437
C0NcERNINc THE CITY or DUIAR
444
CONCERNlNG THE GULF or CALATU AND THE
449
CONCERNING GREAT TURKEY
457

CONCERNING THE Pnovmcs 01 Cum
124
WHERElN IS RELATED now THE Kmc 01 MIEN
132
Cm or SAIANFU
158
Crrv 01 SINJU AND was GREAT
170
Or THE CITY or C1xmcumuvu
176
DESCRIPTlON or THE GREAT CITY or KINSAY wmcn
185
TREATlNG or THE YEARLY REVENUE THAT
215
CHAP Peca
249
CHAI PAG3
251
Can PAGI
284
THE Kmcnoms or SAMARA AND DAGROIAN
292
OF THE Kmcnoms 01 LAMBRI AND FANSUR
299
RNm0 THE ISLAND or NECUVERAN
306
CONCERNING THE ISLAND 01 SEILAN
312
GREAT Pnovmcs or MAABAR wmcn
331
CONTlNUES T0 SPEAK or THE PROVINCE or MAABAR
338
THEREOF
353
CONClZRNING THE Kmcoom or Munnu
359
XXlI Or THE Kmcnom or Comm
375
Kmcnom 01 MELIBAR
389
ll +WHAT THE GREAT KAAN SAID To THE MISCHIEI DONE
463
rHow THE BARONS or ARGON ANSWERED ms ADDRESS
469
H0w K1AcATu SEIZED THE SOVERIZIGNTY AFTER ARcous
475
CONCF RNlNG THE LAND or DARKNESS
484
Or THE WAR THAT ARosE BETWEEN ALAU AND BARcA
494
A Genealogy of the House of Chinghiz to the End of the Thirteenth
505
Comparative Specimens of the Different Recensions of Polos
522
G Diagram showing Filiation of Chief MSS and Editions of Marco
552
lII Titles of Sundry Books and Papers treating of Marco
574
Titles of Works quoted by Abbreviated References in this Book
582
Supplementary Notes to the Book of Marco Polo
593
PREFACE
3
in
13
sT AND SOUTHWEST
75
JAPAN THE ARCHIPELAGO SOUTHERN INDIA AND
103
LIST 01 MSS 01 MARCO Po1 0s Boox so FAR As THEY
133
BIBLIOGRAPHY or MARCO POLOS B0014
139
INDEX 601
151
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About the author (1993)

Jason Goodwin's books include A Time for Tea: Travels Through China and India in Search of Tea; On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul; and Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire.

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TitleThe Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition : Including the Unabridged Third Edition (1903) of Henry Yule's Annotated Translation, as Revised by Henri Cordier, Together with Cordier's Later Volume of Notes and Addenda (1920).
Volume 2 of The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo
Volume 2 of The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition : Including the Unabridged Third Edition (1903) of Henry Yule's Annotated Translation, as Revised by Henri Cordier, Together with Cordier's Later Volume of Notes and Addenda (1920), Sir Henry Yule
Volume 2 of The Travels of Marco Polo: The Complete Yule-Cordier Edition, Henri Cordier
AuthorMarco Polo
EditorsSir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier
Translated bySir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCourier Dover Publications, 1993
ISBN0486275876, 9780486275871
Length896 pages
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