In some cases, they affected these future travelers’ successes and how they would navigate their own voyages. The documentation and maps of his travels significantly influenced European’s perceptions of the Asian continent. Sometimes he provided names for the places he visited. While traveling to these new lands he provided detailed descriptions of the lands he encountered and sometimes his perceptions of the people that lived on those lands.
Polo is known for his travels as a westerner on the Silk Road. He reached further than all of his contemporaries and predecessors and traveled through all of China. He recorded his travels in the manuscript is the Les voyages de Marco Polo de Venise ( The Travels of Marco Polo). He spent twenty-four years journeying through the Asian continent and left behind an impressive amount of documentation including travelogues of his adventures. But due to Polo’s richness of experience it turned out to be an excellent book, which inspired Christopher Columbus and many other travellers in their great ventures.Macro Polo lived from 1254 to 1324. The idea was perhaps to create a handbook for merchants, essentially a text on weights, measures and distances. It is believed that Polo related his memoirs orally to Rustichello da Pisa while both were prisoners of the Genova Republic. An amazing blend of factual and fantastic, Polo’s prose not only reveals the zenith of medieval imagination, but also captures the marvel of subsequent travel writers when faced with the unfamiliar, the exciting, the distant, and the unknown. Covering a period of twenty-four years from 1271 to 1295, Polo’s account gives a detail of his travels in the service of the empire, from Beijing to northern India, and culminates with the remarkable story of his return voyage from the Chinese port of Amoy to the Persian Gulf. It covered the Asian continent, which was not known to Polo’s contemporaries. It lucidly narrates Polo’s journey to the eastern court of Kublai Khan, the chieftain of the Mongol empire.
The Travels of Marco Polo is a translated version of that book. It is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the ancient world. His travels are recorded in Livres des Merveilles du Monde, a book which is said to have introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China.
Marco Polo is one of the most adventurous travellers in human history.
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