![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() K, ‘ Real and imaginary journeys in the later Middle Ages’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, LXV, 1982, 138–40. Graves ( amzn) The Story of Marco Polo by Olive Price, illustrated by Federico Castellon, 1953 ( amzn) Adventures and Discoveries of Marco Polo, by R. ![]() Similarly, the delay in the West's absorption of the new information from the ‘sophisticated’ East is compared with the easy assimilation of the material on the relatively ‘uncivilized’ Canary islanders: Hyde, J. Later, as a prisoner of war, Marco Polo would record the details of his remarkable travels across harsh deserts, great mountain ranges, and dangerous seas. Marco Polo: Journey Across the World by Charles P. Jahrhundert (Beitrăge zur Geschichte und Quellenkunde des Mittelalters, 16, Sigmaringen, 1994) Google Scholar. Set in a world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, Marco Polo is based on the famed explorer’s adventures in Kublai Khan’s court. For earlier views of the Mongols, see Bezzola, Gian Andri, Die Mongolen in abendlandischer Sicht: ein Beitrag zur Frage der Völkerbegegnungen (1220–1270) ( Berne and Munich, 1974) Google Scholar Schmieder, Felicitas, Europa und die Fremden: die Mongolen im Urteil des Abendlandes vom 13. 3 Gosman, Martin, ‘Marco Polo's voyages: the conflict between confirmation and observation’, in Zweder von, Martels (ed.), Travel fact and travel fiction: studies on fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation in travel writing ( Leiden, 1994), 72– 84 (see especially pp. ![]()
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