{"product_id":"2940012173690","title":"Celebrated Travels and Travellers. The Exploration Of The World","description":"FIRST PART.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eCELEBRATED TRAVELLERS BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHANNO, 505; HERODOTUS, 484; PYTHEAS, 340; NEARCHUS, 326; EUDOXUS,\u003cbr\u003e146; CÆSAR, 100; STRABO, 50.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                PAGE\u003cbr\u003eHanno, the Carthaginian--Herodotus visits Egypt, Lybia, Ethiopia,\u003cbr\u003ePhoenicia, Arabia, Babylon, Persia, India, Media, Colchis, the\u003cbr\u003eCaspian Sea, Scythia, Thrace, and Greece--Pytheas explores the\u003cbr\u003ecoasts of Iberia and Gaul, the English Channel, the Isle of\u003cbr\u003eAlbion, the Orkney Islands, and the land of Thule--Nearchus\u003cbr\u003evisits the Asiatic coast, from the Indus to the Persian Gulf--\u003cbr\u003eEudoxus reconnoitres the West Coast of Africa--Cæsar conquers\u003cbr\u003eGaul and Great Britain--Strabo travels over the interior of\u003cbr\u003eAsia, and Egypt, Greece, and Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003eCELEBRATED TRAVELLERS FROM THE FIRST TO THE NINTH CENTURY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePAUSANIAS, 174; FA-HIAN, 399; COSMOS INDICOPLEUSTES, 500; ARCULPHE,\u003cbr\u003e700; WILLIBALD, 725; SOLEYMAN, 851.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePliny, Hippalus, Arian, and Ptolemy--Pausanias visits Attica,\u003cbr\u003eCorinth, Laconia, Messenia, Elis, Achaia, Arcadia, Boeotia, and\u003cbr\u003ePhocis--Fa-Hian explores Kan-tcheou, Tartary, Northern India,\u003cbr\u003ethe Punjaub, Ceylon, and Java--Cosmos Indicopleustes, and the\u003cbr\u003eChristian Topography of the Universe--Arculphe describes\u003cbr\u003eJerusalem, the valley of Jehoshaphat, the Mount of Olives,\u003cbr\u003eBethlehem, Jericho, the river Jordan, Libanus, the Dead Sea,\u003cbr\u003eCapernaum, Nazareth, Mount Tabor, Damascus, Tyre, Alexandria,\u003cbr\u003eand Constantinople--Willibald and the Holy Land--Soleyman\u003cbr\u003etravels through Ceylon, and Sumatra, and crosses the Gulf of\u003cbr\u003eSiam and the China Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003eCELEBRATED TRAVELLERS BETWEEN THE TENTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBENJAMIN OF TUDELA, 1159-1173; PLAN DE CARPIN, OR CARPINI,\u003cbr\u003e1245-1247; RUBRUQUIS, 1253-1254.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Scandinavians in the North, Iceland and Greenland--Benjamin\u003cbr\u003eof Tudela visits Marseilles, Rome, Constantinople, the\u003cbr\u003eArchipelago, Palestine, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Damascus, Baalbec,\u003cbr\u003eNineveh, Baghdad, Babylon, Bassorah, Ispahan, Shiraz, Samarcand,\u003cbr\u003eThibet, Malabar, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Egypt, Sicily, Italy,\u003cbr\u003eGermany, and France--Carpini explores Turkestan--Manners and\u003cbr\u003ecustoms of the Tartars--Rubruquis and the Sea of Azov, the\u003cbr\u003eVolga, Karakorum, Astrakhan, and Derbend . . . . . . . . . . . .  26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003eMARCO POLO, 1253-1324.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe interest of the Genoese and Venetian merchants in\u003cbr\u003eencouraging the exploration of Central Asia--The family of Polo,\u003cbr\u003eand its position in Venice--Nicholas and Matteo Polo, the two\u003cbr\u003ebrothers--They go from Constantinople to the Court of the\u003cbr\u003eEmperor of China--Their reception at the Court of Kublaï-Khan--\u003cbr\u003eThe Emperor appoints them his ambassadors to the Pope--Their\u003cbr\u003ereturn to Venice--Marco Polo--He leaves his father Nicholas and\u003cbr\u003ehis uncle Matteo for the residence of the King of Tartary--The\u003cbr\u003enew Pope Gregory X.--The narrative of Marco Polo is written in\u003cbr\u003eFrench from his dictation, by Rusticien of Pisa  . . . . . . . .  43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArmenia Minor--Armenia--Mount Ararat--Georgia--Mosul, Baghdad,\u003cbr\u003eBussorah, Tauris--Persia--The Province of Kirman--Comadi--\u003cbr\u003eOrmuz--The Old Man of the Mountain--Cheburgan--Balkh--Cashmir--\u003cbr\u003eKashgar--Samarcand--Kotan--The Desert--Tangun--Kara-Korum--\u003cbr\u003eSignan-fu--The Great Wall--Chang-tou--The residence of\u003cbr\u003eKublaï-Khan--Cambaluc, now Pekin--The Emperor's fêtes--His\u003cbr\u003ehunting--Description of Pekin--Chinese Mint and bank-notes--The\u003cbr\u003esystem of posts in the Empire  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTso-cheu--Tai-yen-fou--Pin-yang-fou--The Yellow River--\u003cbr\u003eSignan-fou--Szu-tchouan--Ching-tu-fou--Thibet--Li-kiang-fou--\u003cbr\u003eCarajan--Yung-tchang--Mien--Bengal--Annam--Tai-ping--Cintingui--\u003cbr\u003eSindifoo--Té-cheu--Tsi-nan-fou--Lin-tsin-choo--Lin-sing--Mangi--\u003cbr\u003eYang-tcheu-fou--Towns on the coast--Quin-say or\u003cbr\u003eHang-tcheou-foo--Fo-kien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJapan--Departure of the three Venetians with the Emperor's\u003cbr\u003edaughter and the Persian ambassadors--Sai-gon--Java--Condor--\u003cbr\u003eBintang--Sumatra--The Nicobar Islands--Ceylon--The Coromandel\u003cbr\u003ecoast--The Malabar coast--The Sea of Oman--The island of\u003cbr\u003eSocotra--Madagascar--Zanzibar and the coast of Africa--\u003cbr\u003eAbyssinia--Yemen--Hadramaut and Oman--Ormuz--The return to\u003cbr\u003eVenice--A feast in the household of Polo--Marco Polo a Genoese\u003cbr\u003eprisoner--Death of Marco Polo about 1323 . . . . . . . . . . . .  67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003eIBN BATUTA, 1328-1353.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIbn Batuta--The Nile--Gaza, Tyre, Tiberias, Libanus, Baalbec,\u003cbr\u003eDamascus, Meshid, Bussorah, Baghdad, Tabriz, Mecca and Medina--\u003cbr\u003eYem","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078736658672,"sku":"2940012173690","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012173690_p0.jpg?v=1763552978","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012173690","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}