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The Travels of Marco Polo – Volume 1
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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Voyages and travels; Mongols; Asia; History / Asia / General; History / Asia / China; History / Asia / Central Asia; Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography… More >>
Sep 21st, 2010 at 2:19 am
Let me start by saying “My bad!” if you came here from my review of the Kindle 2: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation).
When I bought my Kindle I was excited to instantly download two free books to start playing with it and I mentioned these in my review. I never opened this one…until now.
Mea culpa.
This is a great example of a bad Kindle book! Like all the free books, it has no linked Table of Contents. But the worst part is that Marco Polo is an incredibly complex tale filled with footnotes, editor’s comments, endnotes and foreign languages accumulated over the last 600 years. That makes it impossible to enjoy (and comprehend) in the Kindle format.
I wanted to see this version because I’m now reading an incredibly good new print edition The Travels of Marco Polo: Edited by Peter Harris (Everyman’s Library (Cloth)) and wanted to compare.
No comparison. Buy the print edition. You’ll love it!
Rating: 1 / 5