Marco Polo —— His Travels and Adventures

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ISBN: 9781330356913 出版年：2016 页码：307 George M Towle Forgotten Books

Nor did his career of valor and stirring action end with his return, middle-aged and laden with riches, to his native Venice. He engaged in the bitter warfare between the two rival republics of the sea, Venice and Genoa; became a prisoner of the latter state and while in prison, dictated the wondrous narrative of his adventures which still survives, a precious legacy left by this great traveller to later generations.