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.
Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141198788
Category: Travel
Page: 380
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INTROD U C T OR Y NOTICE. sy: O many different opinions have obtained
respecting the authorship of “The Travels of Baron Munchausen,” and the
motives for writing that work, that it seems desirable to append some explanation
on both ...
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Category: German wit and humor
Page: 283
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But , returning to my travel , I must not omit that the three Leagues of this journey
was one of the most delightful passages that ever I made in my life ; for the
country on either side is very beautiful , not consisting of Plains that afford onely
an ...
Author: Pietro Della Valle
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Category: India
Page: 12
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... is allow'd . Lycurgus thought it poflible to deaden the fire of voluptuous desires ,
by accuítoming the eye sometimes to those objects which excite them , At all
other times the women women are very resery'd . Nay , it is not 96 THE TRAVELS
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Author: Ramsay (Chevalier, Andrew Michael)
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Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author: Lodovico de Varthema
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Category: Arabian Peninsula
Page: 320
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After they had spent a long time in their travels , they arrived at the port of the
above - mentioned country . When the troops guarding this port beheld them ,
they were seized with great fear : for the latter immediately discharged their
muskets ...
Author: Paul (of Aleppo, Archdeacon)
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Category: Balkan Peninsula
Page: 486
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few gave world very credit to me ; and now being come almost to the end of my
travels into the last and worst age , I expect no other usage . How should I have
many to admire and fell in love with me , when the Bible positively says , “ All the
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Author: Benjamin Keach
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Page: 202
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... Semantics and the Sociology of Science Robert K. Merton, Elinor Barber. The
Travels and Adventures of Serendipity S and Adventures The Serendipity Travels
S of Robert K. Merton. THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF Serendipity.
Author: Robert K. Merton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400841526
Category: Social Science
Page: 352
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