 | Roger Sherman Loomis - 1925 - 576 pàgines
...Cathay and back again with £1,200 worth of silk in his caravan, and remarks casually, in passing, "The road you travel from Tana to Cathay is perfectly safe, whether by day or night, according to what merchants say who have used it" — "il chanmino dandare dalla Tana al Ghattajo... | |
 | Joseph Needham, Ling Wang - 1954 - 392 pàgines
...handbook of the + 14th century says,8 'The road which you travel from Tana (at the mouth of the Don) to Cathay is perfectly safe, whether by day or by...according to what the merchants say who have used it.' What was more surprising was that this was what the Mongol conquests had led to. Ralph Fox, speaking... | |
 | Janet L. Abu-Lughod - 1991 - 466 pàgines
...claimed to have made this journey himself. But he had no hesitation in reassuring his readers that "The road you travel from Tana to Cathay is perfectly...according to what the merchants say who have used it" (Yule, 1924, II: 292). 2. Barfield (1990) offers a different interpretation. He suggests that the Central... | |
 | James D. Tracy - 1990 - 468 pàgines
...route. He sought to reassure potential traders by reporting that "the road you travel from Tana [Azov] to Cathay is perfectly safe, whether by day or by...according to what the merchants say who have used it."15 The Mongol hegemony had fostered a relatively peaceful environment over much of Asia and had... | |
 | Donald F. Lach - 2008 - 513 pàgines
...describes one of the routes that could be followed across Asia from the Levant to Peking. "The road ... is perfectly safe, whether by day or by night, according to what the merchants say who have used it." 141 He gives the stages of the journey, the necessary equipment for the caravan, and the merchandise... | |
 | Ainslie Thomas Embree, Carol Gluck - 1997 - 1048 pàgines
...to escort a caravan. He also reassured them by reporting that "the road you travel from Tana [Azov] to Cathay is perfectly safe, whether by day or by...according to what the merchants say who have used it."7 MARCO POLO AS CATALYST Marco Polo was, without doubt, the critical intermediary in the West's... | |
 | Jakub J. Grygiel - 2006 - 298 pàgines
...European merchant observed that "the road you travel from Tana [at the mouth of the Don] to Catha [China] is perfectly safe, whether by day or by night, according to what the merchants say who have used it."7 Probably the most famous European merchant-explorer of China, Marco Polo, also traveled along... | |
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China is perfectly safe, whether by day or night, according to what the merchants say who have used it. Only if the merchant, in going or coming, should die upon the road, everything belonging to him will become the possession of the lord in the country... 