Travel

The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 1

by Marco Polo

The Venetian merchant’s account, dictated in a Genoese prison, of the court of Kublai Khan and the roads of Asia. Readers have argued for seven centuries about how much Marco saw himself; the book shaped how Europe imagined the East.

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Reading time

About 24 hr 30 min

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #10636. In the public domain in the United States.