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Seeing the World Centuries Ago看许久以前的世界　　If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Frommer or Eugene Fodor?弗洛梅尔或尤金?弗多这些令人熟知的作家写的旅行图书， ，it will not surprise you to lean that travel writing has a long and venerable history. Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales.1几乎从最早有记载的时期开始，人们就发 现，他们对去一个陌生地方旅行的记录是不乏读者的。　　One of the earliest travel writers，a Greek geographer and historian named Strabo，lived around the time of Christ. Though Strabo is known to have traveled from east of the Black Sea west to Italy and as far south as Ethiopia 虽然斯特雷波因 从黑海的东部出发，西至意大利1南至埃塞俄比亚而闻名， ，he also used details gleaned from other writers to extend and enliven his accountsHis multivolumed work Geography provides the only surviving account of the cities，peoples，customs，and geographical peculiarities of the whole known world of his time.　　Two other classic travel writers，the ltalian Marco Polo and the Moroccan Ibn Battutah，lived in roughly the same time period.?波罗和摩洛哥人伊本?白图泰。 Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle in about A.D.1275 and remained there 16 or 17 years，1275年同他的父亲和叔叔去了中国，在那里待了十六七年， visiting several other countries during his travels. 在这期间他也去了一 些其他国家。 When Marco returned to ltaly he dictated his memoirs，including stories he had heard from others,他向一位作家口述了他旅行的回忆以及从别人那里听到的故事， to a scribe，with the resulting book II milione being an instant success.?波罗游记》问世，迅速红了起来。 Though difficult to attest to the accuracy of all he says，Marcos book impelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration. 　　lbn Battutahs interest in travel began on his required Muslim joumey to Mecca in 1325?白图泰在1325年出发去麦加朝圣，从此开始了他的旅行。 ，and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway. 3 His travel book　　The Rihlah is a personalized account of desert journeys，court intrigues，and even the effect of t