Le devisement du monde : Le livre des merveilles

by Marco Polo, Arthur Christopher Moule, Paul Pelliot

240pages. poche. Broché.

554 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

From 1271, Marco Polo of Venice explored Asia to 1295; the only available Travels of Marco Polo accounted China to Europeans until the 1500s.

Marco Polo spun a tale of how people gave a life of sensual pleasure and a potion to make young Assassins to yearn for paradise, their reward for dying in action, before their secret missions.

Stories and various documents also alternatively point to his ancestry, originating in Korčula, Croatia.

People well knew this trader. He recorded his adventures in a published book. People lost the original copies of his works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo

Reviews

[Yann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Passionnant : tout sur la chute du califat, les moghols, les assassins et le vieux de la montagne, le mythe de Cipango avec le temple d'or de Kyoto, qui fera rêver les conquistadors d'eldorado.

[Lonely Panda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read it for a class and It was ok. Not something I would read twice.

[Charles Baril]

Les grandeurs du grand Kubilai Khan. C'est toujours étonnant de voir que l'ancien monde était déjà si bien organisé.