The Customs of the Kingdoms of India

The Customs of the Kingdoms of India

2007 • 71 pages

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Daren
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If I had a dollar for every “Let me tell you”, “You must know that...”, and “I have told you that...”, I would be a little better off than I am now. Similarly annoying in the writing is that the first sentence about any country / province etc explain that the inhabitants are idolaters, and that they go about quite naked... repetitive to say the least.

Still it is interesting to read, as there are many other books which attempt to determine his route and which of his writings can be tied to actual places and events and which are simply fanciful re-tellings of stories Polo was told.

February 8, 2015