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The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Chapter 2: Prefatory Material
By Marco Polo
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The volume recounts rivalries and military campaigns among Mongol/Tartar princes, tracing shifting successions, key battles, and episodes of captivity and restoration, while interweaving reports on the peoples, geography, and customs of northern regions. It includes descriptions of remote lands and seafaring straits, observations on animals, trade practices, and modes of travel, and shorter narrative summaries where full text is lacking. Extensive appendices collect genealogies, manuscript traditions, maps, bibliographies, notes on coins, weights, and measures, and textual remarks and indices that clarify sources, variants, and historical place-names.

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Title: The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Author: Marco Polo

da Pisa Rusticiano

Editor: Henri Cordier

Translator: Sir Henry Yule

Release date: May 1, 2004 [eBook #12410]
Most recently updated: July 1, 2025

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO — VOLUME 2 ***
“Marcvs Polvs Venetvs Totivs Orbis et Indie Peregrator Primus.”
Copied by permission from a painting bearing the above inscription in the Gallery of Monsignore Badia in Rome.

THE TRAVELS OF
MARCO POLO

THE COMPLETE
YULE-CORDIER EDITION
Including the unabridged third edition (1903) of
Henry Yule’s annotated translation, as revised
by Henri Cordier; together with Cordier’s later
volume of notes and addenda (1920)
IN TWO VOLUMES
Volume II
Containing the second volume of the 1903 edition
and the 1920 volume of addenda
(two original volumes bound as one)