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Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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es.369. The Winter Palace at Peking. Borrowed from Fergussorf s History of Arch itecture.371. View of the Green Mount. From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de Semalle.373. The Yiian ctieng. From a photograph kindly lent to the present Editor by Count de Semalle.376. South Gate of the Imperial City at Peking. From an original sketch belonging to the late Dr. W. Lockhart.399. The BOrgut Eagle. After Atkinsons Oriental and Western Siberia.409. The Tents of the Emperor Kien-lung. From a drawing in the Staunton Collection in the British Museum.413. Plain of Cambaluc ; the City in the distance ; from the hills on the north-west. From a photograph. Borrowed from Dr. Rennies Peking.458. The Great Temple of Heaven at Peking. From Michies Siberian Overland Route.463. Marble Archway erected under the Mongol Dynasty at Kiu-Yong Kwan in the Nan-kau Pass, N.W. of Peking. From a photograph in the possession of the present Editor. MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK. INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.
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LuJuJUlImJ Doorway ot the House ot Marco Polo in the Corte Sabbionera, at Venice. (To face p. I. MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK. INTRODUCTORY NOTICES. I. Obscurities in the History of his Life and Book.Ramusios Statements. i. With all the intrinsic interest of Marco Polos Book itmay perhaps be doubted if it would have continued to exer-cise such fascination on many minds through succes- obscurities r i i • rr i • of Polos sive generations were it not for the difficult questions Book, and m personal which it suggests. It is a great book of puzzles, History.whilst our confidence in the mans veracity is such that we feelcertain every puzzle has a solution. And such difficulties have not attached merely to theidentification of places, the interpretation of outlandish terms,or the illustration of obscure customs ; for strange entangle-ments have perplexed also the chief circumstances of theTravellers life and authorship. The time of the dictation ofhis Book and of the execution of h

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