Author: Marco Polo

Cited by

• J. M. G. Le Clezio (1)
  • IN: The Book of Flights (1969) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: But let us leave this city & press on.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Dori Jones Yang (1)
  • IN: Daughter of Xanadu (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And when you have ridden three days from the city last mentioned, between north-east and north, you come to a city called Chandu, which was built by the Kaan now reigning. There is at this place a very fine marble Palace, the rooms of which are all gilt and painted with figures of men and beasts and birds, and with a variety of trees and flowers, all executed with such exquisite art that you regard them with delight and astonishment. Round this Palace a wall is built, inclosing a compass of 16 miles, and inside the Park there are fountains and rivers and brooks, and beautiful meadows...
    FROM: The Travels of Marco Polo, (1300), Book, Italy