Name: Viajes (in Spanish)
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Author: Marco Polo
ISBN: 9788446030737

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marco Polo

Publisher

Ediciones Akal

Year

2009

Language

Spanish

Pages

544

Format

Paperback

ISBN

844603073X

ISBN13

9788446030737

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Viajes (in Spanish)"

Marco Polo (1254-1299), comerciante y viajero veneciano, fue al mismo tiempo aventurero e historiador. Recogiendo con su enorme curiosidad cuanto oía y veía, nos dejó en su libro el más fiel relato "de todas las maravillas de Oriente", fuente imprescindible para el conocimiento directo de la historia, la geografía, la antropología, la economía, las religiones y las leyendas de todos aquellos pueblos. Y por ser un relato vivido, sigue constituyendo hoy el más apasionante de los viajes, la más deliciosa de las lecturas, guiada por un inagotable afán de aventura y conocimiento.

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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