本书是英文原版马可波罗游记。马可波罗是中世纪大旅行家，是使西方人了解中国的重要人物之一。他的《游记》在西方世界产生了重大影响。书中马可波罗向西方展示了迷人的中国文明，开阔了欧洲人的眼界，使他们由最初把它视为天方夜谭到逐渐认识了它的真正价值。

Marco Polo (12541329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is oneof the first great travel books of Western literature,outside the ancient world. The Travels recounts Polo"sjourney to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire which covered theAsian continent, but which was almost unknown to Polo"s contemporaries.Encompassing a twentyfouryear period from 1271, Polo"s account details histravels in the service of the Great Khan over thebreadth of the empire, from Beijing to northern India,and ends with the remarkable story of Polo"s returnvoyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the PersianGulf. Alternately factual and fantastic, Polo"s prose atonce reveals the medieval imagination"s limits, and captures the wonder of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar, the exotic or the unknown.

      BOOK ONE

Prologue

Of Armenia Minor Of the Port of Laiassus And of the Boundaries of the Province

Of the Province called Turkomania, where are the Cities of Kogni, Kaisariah, and Sevasta, and of its Commerce

Of Armenia Major, in which are the Cities of Arzingan, Argiron, and Darziz Of the Castle of Paipurth

Of the Mountain where the Ark of Noah rested Of the Boundaries of the Province And of a Remarkable Fountain of Oil

Of the Province of Zorzania and its Boundaries Of the Pass where Alexander the Great constructed the Gate of Iron And of the miraculous Circumstances attending a Fountain at Teflis

Of the Province of Mosul and its different Inhabitants Of the People named Kurds And of the Trade of this Country

Of the great City of Baldach or Bagadet, anciently called Babylon Of the Navigation fiom thence to Balsara, situated in what is termed the Sea of India, but properly the Persian Gulf And of the various Sciences studied in that City

Concerning the Capture and Death of the Khalif of Baldach, and the miraculous Removal of a Mountain

Of the noble City of Tauris, in Irak, and of its Commercial and other Inhabitants

Of the Monastery of Saint Barsamo, in the Neighbourhood of Tauris

Of the Province of Persia

Of the Names of the Ezght Kingdoms that constitute the Province of Persia and Of the Breed of Horses and of Asses found therein

Of the City of Yasdi and its Manufactures, and of the Animals found in the Country between that place and Kierman

Of the Kingdom of Kierman, by the Ancients named Karmania Of its Fossil and Mineral Productions

Its Manufactures Its Falcons And of a great

Descent observed upon passing out of that Country

Of the City of Kamandu, and District of Reobarle

Of certain Birds found there Of a peculiar kind of Oxen And of the Karaunas, a Tribe of Robbers

Of the City of Ormus, situated on an Island not far from the Main, in the Sea Of India Of its Commercial mportance And of the Hot Wind that blows there

Of the Shipping employed at Ormus Of the Season in which the Fruits are produced And of the Manner of Living and Customs of the Inhabitants

Of the Country travelled over upon leaving Ormus, and returning to Kiennan by a different Route; and of a Bitterness in the Bread occasioned by the Quality of the Water

Of the Desert Country between Kierman and Kobiam, and of the Bitter Quality of the Water

Of the Town of Kobiam, and its Manufactures

Of the Journey from Kobiam to the Province of Timochain on the Northern Confines of Persia And of a Particular Species of Tree

Of the Old Man of the Mountain Of his Palace and Gardens Of his Capture and his Death

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BOOK TWO

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BOOK THREE

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