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Travel and Exploration
Travel accounts and voyages of exploration, in complete public-domain editions.
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Texts
The Travels of Marco Polo Vol. I — Yule–CordierVolume I of the Yule–Cordier edition of Marco Polo's Travels: Sir Henry Yule's introductory memoir and critical essay on the book, then the Prologue and the whole of Book First — the journey from Lesser Armenia through Persia and Central Asia to the court of the Great Kaan — continuing into the opening chapters of Book Second on Kublai Khan's court and capital.The Travels of Marco Polo Vol. II — Yule–CordierVolume II of the Yule–Cordier edition of Marco Polo's Travels: the rest of Book Second, and the whole of Book Third (Japan, the Indian Ocean coasts and islands) and Book Fourth (wars among the Tartar princes), followed by Yule and Cordier's scholarly Appendices, the combined index to both volumes, and Henri Cordier's separate 1920 volume of Notes and Addenda.