Marco Polo And The Silk Road
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Marco Polo
Author | : Michael Burgan |
Publsiher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0756501806 |
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A biography of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer whose book about his travels across Asia and work for Kubla Khan helped to launch the Age of Exploration.
Marco Polo s Travels on Asia s Silk Road
Author | : Cath Senker |
Publsiher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1403497516 |
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How did Marco Polo manage to walk across all of Asia? Why did he become a favorite of fabled Mongol ruler Kublai Khan? Why was he not recognized on his return home? More than 700 years ago, merchants grew rich trading silks, spices, and glittering jewels between Europe and East Asia. Marco Polo decided to see for himself the mysterious lands of the East, and embarked on an expedition lasting 24 years. The account of his epic journey astounded people throughout Europe. Find out how Marco Polo braved bandits, sandstorms, mountains, pirates, and deadly diseases along the Silk Road and Spice Route. Discover how he became a spy for Kublai Khan, saw treasures beyond his dreams, brought riches home to Italy, and wrote one of the greatest travel books of all time.
Marco Polo s Silk Road
Author | : Marco Polo |
Publsiher | : Watkins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : 1780280157 |
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In the late 1290s, an imprisoned Venetian merchant dictated an account of his amazing adventures in China. That book, The Travels of Marco Polo, was an instant success. Though scholars once derided Polo's tale, today's historians accept it as accurate. The original manuscripts are long lost, but now, for the first time, a modernized hybrid edition has been compiled from translations by William Marsden and Henry Yule. Comprising nearly 150 chapters, this superbly illustrated, silk-bound abridgement of this seminal work is a treasure worthy of its subject.--Publisher description.
Following Marco Polo s Silk Road
Author | : Brian Lawrenson |
Publsiher | : Booksurge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Adventure and adventurers |
ISBN | : 1439249423 |
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Following Marco Polo's Silk Road is Brian and Jill Lawrenson's personal account of their adventure-filled journey as they pursue the historical legend and mythic hero, Marco Polo. Beginning in Italy, Marco Polo's point of origin, they embark on a sometimes light-hearted, sometimes perilous journey along the celebrated Silk Road, named for the series of trade routes used to connect China to the Mediterranean world and North Africa during the 3rd Century and beyond. Along the way, Brian and Jill explore the modern peoples and cultures that have grown up in Marco Polo's footsteps and uncover the truths vs. the myths of the actual voyages of this famed Italian explorer. Told as part travelogue and part narrative quest, Following Marco Polo's Silk Road tells an intimate and thrilling tale of wanderlust, the exploration of human diversity and the love of pure adventure for adventure's sake. This book will please travel fans and anyone who loves the romance of history.
The Last Secrets of the Silk Road
Author | : Alexandra Tolstoy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Silk Road |
ISBN | : 1861973799 |
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A unique eight-month, 5,000-mile journey by horse and camel across Central Asia through some of the least known and most beautiful regions of the world, plains and orchards, mountains and desert, to the terminus city of Xian in China. This book by one of the riders tells the story of that extraordinary journey.
Lands of Lost Borders
Author | : Kate Harris |
Publsiher | : Knopf Canada |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780345816795 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RBC TAYLOR PRIZE WINNER OF THE EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION "Every day on a bike trip is like the one before--but it is also completely different, or perhaps you are different, woken up in new ways by the mile." As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved--that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and philosopher--had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. To pass the time before she could launch into outer space, Kate set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule, then settled down to study at Oxford and MIT. Eventually the truth dawned on her: an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. And Harris had soared most fully out of bounds right here on Earth, travelling a bygone trading route on her bicycle. So she quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Mel, this time determined to bike it from the beginning to end. Like Rebecca Solnit and Pico Iyer before her, Kate Harris offers a travel narrative at once exuberant and meditative, wry and rapturous. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped.
Did Marco Polo Go To China
Author | : Frances Wood |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2018-06-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780429980626 |
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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.
The Silk Road
Author | : Frances Wood |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520243404 |
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This gorgeously illustrated oversized book brings the history and cultures of the Silk Road alive -- from its beginnings to the present day -- covering more than 5000 years.