书名：The Travels 马可波罗游记  企鹅经典布面精装

作者：Marco Polo

出版社名称：Penguin USA

出版时间：2015

语种：英语

ISBN：9780141198774

商品尺寸：20.6 x 13.2 x 3.2 cm

包装：精装

本书是有史以来非常伟大的旅行书籍之一:马可·波罗对他的东方旅行的开创性的描述。马可·波罗是他那个时代著名的旅行家。他的远航开始于1271年，当时他访问了中国，之后他为忽必烈可汗执行过多次外交任务。

回到西方后，他成了一名战俘，并遇到了比萨的鲁斯蒂切罗，他和他合作完成了这本书。本书对他的旅行的描述，让我们得以一窥他在国外所遭遇的奇妙景象:陌生的宗教、习俗和社会;东方的香料和丝绸;珍贵的宝石，奇异的植物和遥远土地上的野兽。马可的书是一个遥远而又突然消失的世界，充满色彩和即时性。这本书彻底改变了西方对当时未知的东方的看法，至今仍是史上非常伟大的游记之一。

这个版本是五十多年来首部全新的英译本，奈杰尔·克利夫回到原稿来源，制作了一个全新的、权威的新版本。这本书也包含了价值连城的编辑材料，其中包括一篇介绍波罗离开前夕的世界的文章，以及对西方对东方的幻想概念的分析。

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions.

On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. His account of his travels offers a fascinating glimpse of what he encountered abroad: unfamiliar religions, customs and societies; the spices and silks of the East; the precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts of faraway lands. Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy, Marco's book revolutionized western ideas about the then unknown East and is still one of the greatest travel accounts of all time.

For this edition - the first completely new English translation of the Travels in over fifty years - Nigel Cliff has gone back to the original manuscript sources to produce a fresh, authoritative new version. The volume also contains invaluable editorial materials, including an introduction describing the world as it stood on the eve of Polo's departure, and examining the fantastical notions the West had developed of the East. 

马可波罗出生于1254年，1271年和他的父亲一起踏上了去中国的旅程。

在以后的20年里，他一直为忽必烈服务。有证据表明马可·波罗在蒙古帝国游历过很多地方，而且相当肯定他去过印度。他在热那亚服刑期间写了著名的游记。

奈杰尔·克里夫(Nigel Cliff)曾是《泰晤士报》的戏剧和电影评论家，《经济学人》(The Economist)和其他出版物的定期撰稿人，现在撰写非虚构类历史书籍。2007年出版的《莎士比亚暴乱》入围了位于华盛顿的国家艺术写作奖。他的第二本书《最后的十字军:瓦斯科·达·伽马和现代世界的诞生》出版于2011年，并入围了美国笔会赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼奖。

Marco Polo was born in 1254, joining his father on a journey to China in 1271.He spent the next twenty years travelling in the service of Kublai Khan. There is evidence that Marco travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire and it is fairly certain he visited India. He wrote his famous Travels whilst a prisoner in Genoa.

Nigel Cliff was previously a theatre and film critic for The Times and a regular writer for The Economist, among other publications, and now writes historical nonfiction books. His first book, The Shakespeare Riots, was published in 2007 and shortlisted for the Washington-based National Award for Arts Writing. His second book, The Last Crusade: Vasco da Gama and the Birth of the Modern World appeared in 2011 and was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize.