The City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo - Hardcover

D'Ancona, Jacob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559725230 ISBN 13: 9781559725231

Publisher: Citadel Press, 2000

Synopsis

Challenging Marco Polo's status as "first" to enter China, this journal of a scholarly Jewish merchant who sailed into Zaitun four years before the arrival of Polo describes the adventures of a medieval trader and adds another fascinating chapter to the classic encounter between East and West.

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Review:

Puts Marco's prose in the shade ... far too grand a book to do justice to in a short review ( Robyn Davidson, THE TIMES)

A lost masterpiece of early travel writing, a gutsy fascinating account ( Charles Nicholl, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

One of the most important manuscripts ever discovered ... the extraordinary adventure of a merchant-scholar which will lead us into the past once again blazing with light ( SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

This book is a many-splendoured achievement.. Moreover it is a feat of scholarship. ( OBSERVER)

Book Description:

*A formidable recreation of the romance and adventure of the age of exploration. *A work of wide sholarly, philosophical and ethical interest.

About this edition

• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1559725230
• ISBN 13: 9781559725231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Selbourne David