Name: Le Devisement Du Monde (in French)
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Author: Marco Polo
ISBN: 9782252039137

portada Le Devisement Du Monde (in French)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marco Polo

Illustrated by

Louis Hambis

Publisher

Klincksieck

Language

French

Pages

438

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9782252039137

Edition No.

0002

Synopsis "Le Devisement Du Monde (in French)"

English summary: This new edition of the most famous travel account from the Middle Ages is translated into modern French. French description: Nouvelle edition du recit de voyage le plus celebre du Moyen Age, rendu en francais moderneLouis Hambis (1906-1978) a ete directeur de l'Institut des hautes etudes chinoises, professeur au College de France.

Marco Polo

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Marco Polo (1254-1324) was a merchant, traveler, and Venetian writer famous for his accounts of his travels to Asia. His most famous work, The Book of the Marvels of the World (circa 1300), also known as The Travels of Marco Polo, documents his experiences at the court of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and his explorations through China and other regions of the East. This book, dictated to Rustichello da Pisa while he was a prisoner in Genoa, belongs to the travel literature genre and was one of the first detailed descriptions of Asia in medieval Europe.

His work influenced European exploration, inspiring figures such as Christopher Columbus. The Book of the Marvels of the World became a key reference for the geography and cartography of the time, sparking Western interest in the riches of the East.

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