马可·波罗是13世纪杰出的旅行家,他由西向东前去探索未知的世界,一走就是25年。《马可·波罗游记》是他的一部游记,讲述了关于东方的奇闻。它是人类历史上西方人感知东方的第一部著作,它向整个欧洲打开了神秘的东方之门。本书不但是研究历史者的灯塔,为人们对元史的研究提供了一幅生动真实的社会经济生活画卷,同时也成为了一部地理学的重要指南。
本书是英文版本。
BOOK ONE
Prologue
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II Of Armenia Minor - Of the Port of Laiassus - And of the Boundaries of the Province
III Of the Province called Turkomania, where are the Cities of Kogni, Kaisariah, and Sevasta, and of its Commerce
IV Of Armenia Major, in which are the Cities of Arzingan,Argiron, and Darziz- Of the Castle of Paipurth -
Of the Mountain where the Ark of Noah rested- Of the Boundaries of the Province- And of a Remarkable
Fountain of Oil
V Of the Province of Zorzania and its Boundaries-Of the Pass where Alexander the Great costructed the Gate
of lron -And of the miraculous Cirumstances attending a Fountain at Teflis
VI Of the Province of Mosul and its different Inhabitants-Of the People named Kurds-And of the Trade of this Country
VII Of the great City of Baldach or Bagadet, anciently called Babylon - Of the Navigation from thence to Balsara,
situated in what is termed the Sea of India, but properly the Persian Gulf- And of the various Sciences studied
in that City
VIII Concerning the Capture qnd Death of the Khalife of Baldach,and the miraculous Removal of a Mountain
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BOOK TWO
BOOK THREE