{"product_id":"the-travels-of-marco-polo-penguin-clothbound-2015","title":"The Travels of Marco Polo - Penguin Clothbound, 2015","description":"\u003cbr\u003eTitle: The Travels of Marco Polo\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Marco Polo\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003ePublication Date: 2015\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Brand New\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!-- split --\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2\u003eReader's note\u003c\/h2\u003eMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; the precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts of faraway lands. Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the then unknown East and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time.","brand":"Country House Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307059622267,"sku":"10863584","price":9.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2458\/8207\/files\/orig_516252_jpg.jpg?v=1782132356","url":"https:\/\/countryhouselibrary.co.uk\/products\/the-travels-of-marco-polo-penguin-clothbound-2015","provider":"Country House Library ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}