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Author | : Joan Holub |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2007-07-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0448445409 |
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Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John O?Brien.
Author | : Frances Wood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2018-06-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429980620 |
Download Did Marco Polo Go To China? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only never went to China, he probably never even made it past the Black Sea, where his family conducted business as merchants.Marco Polo's travels from Venice to the exotic and distant East, and his epic book describing his extraordinary adventures, A Description of the World, ranks among the most famous and influential books ever published. In this fascinating piece of historical detection, marking the 700th anniversary of Polo's journey, Frances Wood questions whether Marco Polo ever reached the country he so vividly described. Why, in his romantic and seemingly detailed account, is there no mention of such fundamentals of Chinese life as tea, foot-binding, or even the Great Wall? Did he really bring back pasta and ice cream to Italy? And why, given China's extensive and even obsessive record-keeping, is there no mention of Marco Polo anywhere in the archives?Sure to spark controversy, Did Marco Polo Go to China? tries to solve these and other inconsistencies by carefully examining the Polo family history, Marco Polo's activities as a merchant, the preparation of his book, and the imperial Chinese records. The result is a lucid and readable look at medieval European and Chinese history, and the characters and events that shaped this extraordinary and enduring myth.
Author | : Marco Polo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
Download The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Denis Belliveau |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2008-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0742557375 |
Download In the Footsteps of Marco Polo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With Polo's book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles becoming the first to retrace his entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. Surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, they were the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the deadly singing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. In Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, they lived with the Mentawai tribes, whose culture has remained unchanged since the Bronze Age. They became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan. Accompanied by 200 stunning full-color photographs, the text provides a fascinating account of the lands and peoples the two hardy adventurers encountered during their perilous journey. The authors' experiences are remarkably similar to descriptions from Polo's account of his own travels and life. Laden with adventure, humor, diplomacy, history, and art, this book is compelling proof that travel is the enemy of bigotry—a truth that resonates from Marco Polo's time to our own.
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Publisher | : Silver Burdett Press |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Explorers |
ISBN | : 9780382090981 |
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Marco Polo recounts his voyage to China where he served the emperor Kublai Khan for seventeen years before returning to Venice.
Author | : Marco Polo |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2004-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101157658 |
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His journey through the East began in 1271—when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His acceptance into the court of the great emperor Kublai Khan, and his service to the vast and dazzling Mongol empire, led him to places as far away as Tibet and Burma, lands rich with gems and gold and silk, but virtually unknown to Europeans. Later, as a prisoner of war, Marco Polo would record the details of his remarkable travels across harsh deserts, great mountain ranges, and dangerous seas, as well as of his encounters with beasts and birds, plants and people. His amazing chronicle is both fascinating and awe-inspiring—and still serves as the most vivid depiction of the mysterious East in the Middle Ages. Edited and with an Introduction by Milton Rugoff and an Afterword by Howard Mittelmark
Author | : Benjamin B. Olshin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022614982X |
Download The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Concerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one or another of the three daughters on them). Discusses provenance, authenticity, and history of the documents, known to scholars as "the Marco Polo Maps" since 1948, here discussed fully for the first time.
Author | : John Larner |
Publisher | : Yale Nota Bene |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300089004 |
Download Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this engaging and authoritative book, historian John Larner provides a fresh view of the enigmatic Marco Polo, who, despite a deliberate cultivation of impersonality, continues today to engage the attention of readers. 17 illustrations, 12 in color.
Author | : Hans Ulrich Vogel |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2012-11-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9004231935 |
Download Marco Polo Was in China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel undertakes a thorough study of Yuan currencies, salts and revenues, by comparing Marco Polo manuscripts with Chinese sources and thus offering new evidence for the Venetian’s stay in Khubilai Khan’s empire.
Author | : John Man |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2010-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1409045641 |
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**A SOURCE FOR MARCO POLO, A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history. His account of his experiences, known simply as The Travels, uncovered an entirely new world of emperors and concubines, great buildings - 'stately pleasure domes' in Coleridge's dreaming - huge armies and imperial riches. His book shaped the West's understanding of China for hundreds of years. John Man travelled in Marco's footsteps to Xanadu, in search of the truth behind Marco's stories; to separate legend from fact. Drawing on his own journey, archaeology and archival study, John Man paints a vivid picture of the man behind the myth and the true story of the great court of Kublai Khan.