The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian Marco Polo 9781314486131 Books
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The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian Marco Polo 9781314486131 Books
This applies solely to the Kindle edition... At $.99, not worth the price. I had to give it one star, no stars is not accepted...The Kindle edition is apparently a 100% unedited / unreviewed scan of the book. The result of the 'character recognition' is slightly above random garbage, an excerpt as it appears in the Kindle edition on 2/11/2015:
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THE BROTHERS POLO AT CONSTANTINOPLE. 3
Bail Marco, and MafFeo, the brother of Nicolo, respectal)le and well-informed men, embarked in a ship of their own, witk a rich and varied cargo of merchandise,
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If if you have the patience to read through that, more power to you... If, like myself, you unfortunately bought this trash, get a refund from Amazon.
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The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian Marco Polo 9781314486131 Books Reviews
I was expecting a little more narrative than just "I went here, the people were like this, then I went to the next place," but it was still fascinating to read his adventures.
I have tried to read the first few pages of this book. There are formatting and spelling mistakes on every page. It is a horrible edition. Didn’t seem to have any links embedded to go directly to any chapter. It is not good. I should have looked into it a little more but I thought it couldn’t be that bad. I was wrong. Even at $2, it’s overpriced. Don’t get this edition.
During the 13th Century the Mongols conquered most of the world from China to the Black Sea, providing a rare window of opportunity for people to travel from Europe to the Far East. A few adventurous Europeans accomplished it. One actually wrote about it Marco Polo. Many years later, as he lay dying, family members and the attending priest begged Marco Polo to recant all the outrageous lies he had told about his incredible adventures. He refused, insisting that everything he said and wrote had all been absolutely true.
The record Marco Polo left of his travels stirred the imaginations of Europeans about the possibilities that existed beyond their own limited horizons. Little more than two hundred years later they had established a trade route around Africa to reach the Far East, and attempts to do the same thing by sailing westward had revealed the existence of two hitherto entirely unknown American continents.
The Travels of Marco Polo is one of a handful of books that can truly be said to have changed the world. This is not merely another adventure story, it is THE adventure story of all time! The Polos traveled thousands of miles through unknown and hostile territory in order to reach lands hitherto only vaguely rumored to exist. They accomplished it entirely on their own, and not at the head of a conquering army, but as simple commercial travelers.
On the down side, this is not the most convenient of books to get through. A good map is an absolutely necessary accompaniment to the text. Even then, many of the names commonly applied today to many of the people and places alluded to in the text have been changed. In fact, some of the places mentioned in the text don't even exist any more. That is, of course, only to be expected after the lapse of more than 700 years. This edition is provided with copious footnotes which, like the map, are an absolute necessity. However, the editors might have made things a lot easier by altering the names of the people and places to their current spelling, and providing a map with locations plotted on it, without really altering the content of the text.
Avoid this version. It is a cheap OCR scan of a printed book, and is barely readable for the horrendous level of uncorrected OCR mistakes.
I mean, really bad. Some pages seem like every other word has random punctuation, random letters... Someone thought they could just OCR a public domain book, not bother to fix it up, and just sell the crappy OCR results.
Zero stars
An interesting history of an era I knew virtually nothing about. The TV series Genghis Khan led me to read this book and I am pleased that I did. A travel log through an unknown world that existed seemingly in a different dimension! American's don't learn this history.
This is a recent translation with the emphasis on a modern and readable style. Actually, even 18th century travel books written in English are usually quite readable, but at least until recently translations seemed to try to be unreadable - sort of "maybe you get to read this, but by heck you're not going to enjoy it". But this is a real pleasure to read, and comes across as the account of an engaging story teller with an enquiring and open mind.
I first read this book when a teacher lent it to me in 7th grade, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was fascinating to read his adventures. As he traveled along, he explained each town he went to, and the explanations and information were interesting to read, seeing what each town was like, who they were under the rule of, and so on. The middle part of the book explains some of his journeys and events while he was visiting the Great Khan, and the latter parts explaining his trip back to Europe by sea. This edition also includes footnotes, which the edition my teacher had didn't, correcting some of the mistakes and giving more context to the text. The language and construction of the sentences are a bit more formal and declarative than works one would more commonly read today, but it wasn't difficult to understand or comprehend. The beginning of the book focuses on Marco's first adventure to China with his father and uncle, and overall, the entire beginning was a bit hard to get through, but once you get past it, it becomes more enjoyable. Overall, I would recommend this book.
This applies solely to the edition... At $.99, not worth the price. I had to give it one star, no stars is not accepted...
The edition is apparently a 100% unedited / unreviewed scan of the book. The result of the 'character recognition' is slightly above random garbage, an excerpt as it appears in the edition on 2/11/2015
<Garbage Commencement>
There are strong grounds, Marsden says, for belieTjlng that this date of 1250, although found in all the editions, is incorrect. In the naanuscript, of which there are copies in the BritifV^iJiuseum and Berlin kbnuiei^ tha oonunencement of the voyage is platted in 1252, and 8om«
I
r
THE BROTHERS POLO AT CONSTANTINOPLE. 3
Bail Marco, and MafFeo, the brother of Nicolo, respectal)le and well-informed men, embarked in a ship of their own, witk a rich and varied cargo of merchandise,
<Garbage End>
If if you have the patience to read through that, more power to you... If, like myself, you unfortunately bought this trash, get a refund from .
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