Marco Polo and His World
2024
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Aged seventeen, Marco Polo left his home in Venice on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century. Imprisoned in Genoa five years later, he collaborated with Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa on a work they called The Description of the World. Their book recounted ‘all the greatest marvels and great diversities of Greater Armenia, Persia, the Tartars, India, and many other provinces’. In Marco Polo and His World Sharon Kinoshita brings these marvels to life, describing the rich commodities, plants, people and animals that Marco encountered and recorded. Copiously illustrated, and ranging from Venice, Genoa and Pisa to Khanbaliq, Quinsai and Zaytun, this is a vivid account of Marco Polo’s astounding adventures.
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Sharon Kinoshita
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Sharon Kinoshita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Her work is primarily focused in Medieval Mediterranean Studies. She is co-Director of the UCSC Center for Mediterranean Studies as well as the University of California Multicampus Research Project Initiative in Mediterranean Studies (http://mediterraneanseminar.org). Research areas: Old French Literature The Medieval Culture of Empire Vernacular French representations Medieval Mediterranean Literature Chretien de Troyes Marie de France Marco Polo
