Manuel Komroff - Böcker

Visar alla böcker från författaren Manuel Komroff. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

18 produkter

Kategorier

18 produkter

Travels of Marco Polo

AvMarco Polo,Manuel Komroff

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

317 kr

Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar

Travels of Marco Polo

AvMarco Polo,Manuel Komroff

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

527 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Liveright is proud to make available in paperback its reissue of the classic 1926 edition of The Travels of Marco Polo. Working from the traditional lyrical Marsden translation, editor Manuel Komroff corrected it against Henry Yule's magisterial two-volume work, including a chapter missing from the Marsden, to create a wonderfully readable and authoritative version. The artist Witold Gordon created thirty-two two-color woodcut illustrations for the original edition, published again here for the first time in over fifty years.Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China. There he serves in the court of Kublai Khan, then the leader of the most advanced and powerful country in the world. Polo also ventures to Shangtu, made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu."

Contemporaries of Marco Polo

Consisting of the Travel Records to the Eastern Parts of The World of William Rubruck [1253-1255]; The Journey of John of Pian De Carpini [1245-1247]; The Journal of Friar Odoric [1318-1330] & The Oriental Travels of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudel

AvManuel Komroff

Häftad, Engelska, 1980

325 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

The accounts left by these travelers are important, not only for their corroboration of Marco Polo’s tales of wonder, but because they throw light upon the early history, customs and religion of one of the great peoples of the modern world—the Chinese. In these account we see the roots of Chinese pride, patience, endurance and heroism. Through them we learn to understand that the greatness of the Chinese people today is not an accident, but the result, the fruit of an anciently founded and mature culture, a culture that could live side-by-side with the ravishing, destructive, brutal culture of the Mongolian Tartars and even survive the holocaust visited upon them by these barbarians.