# The Travels

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- Book: [The Travels](https://www.bookquiver.com/miroslav-petricek/the-travels) ([The Travels.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/miroslav-petricek/the-travels.md))
- Authors: [Miroslav Petříček](https://www.bookquiver.com/miroslav-petricek)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-657-7
- Published: 1974-11-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.