The Voyages of Marco Polo. Марко Поло

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      VOLUME 1

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION

       PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

       ORIGINAL PREFACE.

       TO HENRY YULE.

       MEMOIR OF SIR HENRY YULE.

       A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY YULE'S WRITINGS

       MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.

       INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.

       I. OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK. RAMUSIO'S STATEMENTS.

       II. SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST AT THE TIME OF THE JOURNEYS OF THE POLO FAMILY.

       III. THE POLO FAMILY. PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLERS DOWN TO THEIR FINAL RETURN FROM THE EAST.

       IV. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO FAMILY AT VENICE.

       V. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STATES IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

       VI. THE JEALOUSIES AND NAVAL WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA. LAMBA DORIA'S EXPEDITION TO THE ADRIATIC; BATTLE OF CURZOLA; AND IMPRISONMENT OF MARCO POLO BY THE GENOESE.

       VII. RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO'S FELLOW-PRISONER AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN THE TRAVELS.

       VIII. NOTICES OF MARCO POLO'S HISTORY, AFTER THE TERMINATION OF HIS IMPRISONMENT AT GENOA.

       IX. MARCO POLO'S BOOK; AND THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH IT WAS FIRST WRITTEN.

       X. VARIOUS TYPES OF TEXT OF MARCO POLO'S BOOK.

       XI. SOME ESTIMATE OF THE CHARACTER OF POLO AND HIS BOOK.

       XII. CONTEMPORARY RECOGNITION OF POLO AND HIS BOOK.

       XIII. NATURE OF POLO'S INFLUENCE ON GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE.

       XIV. EXPLANATIONS REGARDING THE BASIS ADOPTED FOR THE PRESENT TRANSLATION.

       THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO.

       PROLOGUE.

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II.

       CHAPTER III.

       CHAPTER IV.

       CHAPTER V.

       CHAPTER VI.

       CHAPTER VII.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       CHAPTER IX.

       CHAPTER X.

       CHAPTER XI.

       CHAPTER XII.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       CHAPTER XIV.

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