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 ...

This book, published as an addendum to Sir Henry Yule's translation of Marco Polo's book about his travels to Asia, lends considerable insight into the original book's given ...

I had certainly no intention of writing a book when I commenced to put together the information contained in these pages. All I purposed to do was to prepare a short report of ...