THE MARCO POLO ODYSSEY: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A MERCHANT WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 03235009B32329
English Summary/英文概要： The Marco Polo Odyssey tracks the fantastic journey of an intrepid adventurer who spent ten years following the 13,000 mile overland route of Marco Polo from Venice to Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and finally crossing China to Beijing. It is an account of an exhilarating voyage of discovery and the three expeditions it took author Harry Rutstein to finally fulfill his dream. Using every means of travel available including camels, farm tractors, horses and goatskin rafts author Harry Rutstein became the first person known to have retraced Marco Polo s footsteps. The book chronicles his extraordinary adventures and authenticates the 13th century journey of the great explorer. Marco Polo s travels and subsequent bestselling book sparked the expansion of the mercantile empires of medieval Europe and gave birth to the modern age of globalization. Excerpts of Marco Polo s book, Description of the World, are woven into Harry s narrative, which add depth and perspective to his colorful and humorous stories of travel along the now-abandoned Silk Road. The interwoven historical commentaries, geographical and cultural descriptions confirm just how little has changed in 700 years in many parts of Asia. Over 200 photographs provide a visual travelogue of their own. The keys to Harry Rutstein s success on his odyssey were an unrelenting perseverance and lots of good luck. The Marco Polo Odyssey is flesh-and-blood history and a rousing good story of adventure and achievement. *Includes DVD: On the Roof of the World with Marco Polo.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 「馬可波羅之旅」記述了一段奇幻般的探索歷程，一位探險家果敢決絕地選擇追尋當年馬可波羅的足跡，他歷時整整十年時間，從威尼斯啟程，一路橫跨以色列、土耳其、伊朗、阿富汗、巴基斯坦直至最終抵達中國的北京。
呈現在讀者面前的將是一場充滿驚喜的探索之旅，作者哈裏.魯茨坦整整經歷了三段艱辛的旅程，才最終達成了自己的心願。
一路向東，沿途對於任何可用的交通設備，他都可謂是無所不用其極，從駱駝、拖拉機、到馬匹甚至羊皮筏，哈裏此舉無疑令其成為了有史以來首位重演馬可波羅當年東遊足跡的第一人。本書在記錄他本人行程的同時，也真實再現了十三世紀馬可波羅的偉大壯舉。正是得益於馬可波羅的探險以及隨後其「東方見聞錄」一書的熱賣，中世紀歐洲帝國的擴張以及當代全球化的雛形才相繼成為了可能。
本書不僅融匯了「東方見聞錄」中的內容，同時在哈裏的筆下，走在現已是一片荒蕪的絲綢之路上，其沿途所經歷的種種遭遇亦被繪聲繪色地收錄了進來。
從歷史、地理以及文化多個角度入手，讀者可以發現，雖然距離當年馬可波羅的探險已過去了七百多年，但在很多方面，相較當年書中的記載，現如今的亞洲卻幾乎感受不到絲毫的改變。
當然，除去文字之外，本書更是包含有超過二百多幅的照片，這將更加直觀地幫助我們一覽東方的神秘風韻。哈裏.魯茨坦之所以能夠達成理想，這要完全歸咎於其鍥而不捨的堅韌，當然還有一路上好運的相伴。這無疑是一本活生生的歷史，又是一段勵志的冒險壯舉。(ANDY)
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About the Author/作者介绍： HARRY RUTSTEIN is not only a modern day Marco Polo, he s a recognized expert on the life of Marco Polo. In 1985, after four years of research and ten years of travel, he became the first person to follow the 13th century explorer s route across Europe and Asia. He is co-author of In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey published by The Viking Press in 1980. In 1981 Harry produced and appeared in On the Roof of the World with Marco Polo, a documentary film about his travels, which premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Like Marco Polo, Harry Rutstein has been a merchant of high technology in China for 20 years. He resides in Seattle, Washington.
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