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The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
Marco Polo · Public domain text
368,107 words · about 25 h 47 min to read

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The text of The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #10636. It is in English and public domain in the United States. Translated by Sir Henry Yule. Edited by Henri Cordier. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built
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About this book
- Authors
- Marco Polo (1254–1324), da Pisa Rusticiano
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Voyages and travels, Asia › Description and travel › Early works to 1800, Mongols › History, Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
- Length
- 368,107 words · about 25 h 47 min
- Sections
- 121 reader sections · Table of contents
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #10636
Contents (121)
- Opening under 1 min
- Dedication about 2 h 20 min
- Prologue about 9 min
- Part I about 9 min
- Prologue about 4 h 38 min
- Book I under 1 min
- Prologue about 2 min
- Chapter I about 3 min
- II. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS WENT ON BEYOND SOLDAIA about 13 min
- Chapter III about 2 min
- Chapter IV under 1 min
- Chapter V under 1 min
- Chapter VI about 2 min
- Chapter VII about 4 min
- Chapter VIII about 3 min
- IX. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS CAME TO THE CITY OF ACRE about 2 min
- Chapter X about 2 min
- Chapter XI about 2 min
- Chapter XII about 7 min
- Chapter XIII about 2 min
- Chapter XIV about 2 min
- XV. HOW THE EMPEROR SENT MARK ON AN EMBASSY OF HIS about 7 min
- Chapter XVI about 1 min
- Chapter XVII about 3 min
- Chapter XVIII about 8 min
- Chapter I about 4 min
- II. CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TURCOMANIA about 5 min
- III. DESCRIPTION OF THE GREATER HERMENIA about 9 min
- IV. OF GEORGIANIA AND THE KINGS THEREOF about 20 min
- V. OF THE KINGDOM OF MAUSUL about 6 min
- Chapter VI about 13 min
- Chapter VII about 2 min
- Chapter VIII about 2 min
- Chapter IX under 1 min
- Chapter X about 5 min
- XI. OF THE NOBLE CITY OF TAURIS about 3 min
- Chapter XII about 1 min
- Chapter XIII about 2 min
- Chapter XIV about 8 min
- Chapter XV about 12 min
- XVI. CONCERNING THE GREAT CITY OF YASDI about 5 min
- XVII. CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KERMAN about 15 min
- Chapter XVIII about 24 min
- XIX. OF THE DESCENT TO THE CITY OF HORMOS about 38 min
- Chapter XX about 5 min
- Chapter XXI about 7 min
- XXII. OF A CERTAIN DESERT THAT CONTINUES FOR EIGHT DAYS’ JOURNEY about 28 min
- XXIII. CONCERNING THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN about 6 min
- XXIV. HOW THE OLD MAN USED TO TRAIN HIS ASSASSINS about 7 min
- XXV. HOW THE OLD MAN CAME BY HIS END about 8 min
- XXVI. CONCERNING THE CITY OF SAPURGAN about 4 min
- XXVII. OF THE CITY OF BALC about 4 min
- Chapter XXVIII about 9 min
- XXIX. OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN about 14 min
- XXX. OF THE PROVINCE OF PASHAI about 6 min
- XXXI. OF THE PROVINCE OF KESHIMUR about 9 min
- XXXII. OF THE GREAT RIVER OF BADASHAN about 23 min
- XXXIII. OF THE KINGDOM OF CASCAR about 4 min
- XXXIV. OF THE GREAT CITY OF SAMARCAN about 5 min
- XXXV. OF THE PROVINCE OF YARCAN about 2 min
- XXXVI. OF A PROVINCE CALLED COTAN about 6 min
- XXXVII. OF THE PROVINCE OF PEIN about 8 min
- XXXVIII. OF THE PROVINCE OF CHARCHAN about 5 min
- XXXIX. OF THE CITY OF LOP AND THE GREAT DESERT about 20 min
- XL. CONCERNING THE GREAT PROVINCE OF TANGUT about 15 min
- XLI. OF THE PROVINCE OF CAMUL about 6 min
- XLII. OF THE PROVINCE OF CHINGINTALAS about 11 min
- XLIII. OF THE PROVINCE OF SUKCHUR about 4 min
- XLIV. OF THE CITY OF CAMPICHU about 8 min
- XLV. OF THE CITY OF ETZINA about 4 min
- XLVI. OF THE CITY OF CARACORON about 33 min
- Chapter XLVII about 3 min
- Chapter XLVIII about 1 min
- XLIX. HOW PRESTER JOHN MARCHED TO MEET CHINGHIS about 6 min
- L. THE BATTLE BETWEEN CHINGHIS KAAN AND PRESTER JOHN about 2 min
- Chapter LI about 16 min
- LII. CONCERNING THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS about 8 min
- LIII. CONCERNING THE GOD OF THE TARTARS about 8 min
- LIV. CONCERNING THE TARTAR CUSTOMS OF WAR about 13 min
- LV. CONCERNING THE ADMINISTERING OF JUSTICE AMONG THE TARTARS about 6 min
- LVI. SUNDRY PARTICULARS OF THE PLAIN BEYOND CARACORON about 11 min
- LVII. OF THE KINGDOM OF ERGUIUL, AND PROVINCE OF SINJU about 15 min
- LVIII. OF THE KINGDOM OF EGRIGAIA about 7 min
- Chapter LIX about 31 min
- LX. CONCERNING THE KAAN’S PALACE OF CHAGANNOR about 6 min
- LXI. OF THE CITY OF CHANDU, AND THE KAAN’S PALACE THERE about 1 h 9 min
- Chapter I about 2 min
- Chapter II about 5 min
- III. HOW THE GREAT KAAN MARCHED AGAINST NAYAN about 3 min
- IV. OF THE BATTLE THAT THE GREAT KAAN FOUGHT WITH NAYAN about 11 min
- Chapter V about 12 min
- Chapter VI about 5 min
- VII. HOW THE KAAN REWARDED THE VALOUR OF HIS CAPTAINS about 15 min
- VIII. CONCERNING THE PERSON OF THE GREAT KAAN about 6 min
- IX. CONCERNING THE GREAT KAAN’S SONS about 6 min
- X. CONCERNING THE PALACE OF THE GREAT KAAN about 17 min
- XI. CONCERNING THE CITY OF CAMBALUC about 10 min
- Chapter XII about 5 min
- Chapter XIII about 12 min
- Chapter XIV about 6 min
- Chapter XV about 7 min
- Chapter XVI about 5 min
- Chapter XVII about 2 min
- Chapter XVIII about 6 min
- Chapter XIX about 3 min
- XX. HOW THE EMPEROR GOES ON A HUNTING EXPEDITION about 17 min
- Chapter XXI about 2 min
- Chapter XXII about 4 min
- Chapter XXIII about 13 min
- Chapter XXIV about 19 min
- Chapter XXV about 6 min
- Chapter XXVI about 9 min
- Chapter XXVII about 2 min
- Chapter XXVIII about 1 min
- XXIX. CONCERNING THE RICE-WINE DRUNK BY THE PEOPLE OF CATHAY about 2 min
- Chapter XXX about 4 min
- Chapter XXXI about 2 min
- XXXII. OF THE CHARITY OF THE EMPEROR TO THE POOR about 3 min
- Chapter XXXIII about 28 min
- Chapter XXXIV about 12 min
- Book I about 2 h 25 min
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