# 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_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4125-305-2
- Pages: 480
- Published: 2016-02-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions in the far east. His subsequent account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar customs and societies; the spices and silks of the east; the precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts of faraway lands. Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the unknown east and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time.