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Who Was Marco Polo
Author | : Joan Holub,Who HQ |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2007-07-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780448445403 |
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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.
Marco Polo
Author | : Marco Tabilio |
Publsiher | : Graphic Universe ™ |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-08-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781512470826 |
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The son of a traveling merchant, Marco Polo spent his early years among the ports of Venice, Italy. As a young man, he headed eastward with his father and his uncle toward the lands of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. Their journey from Europe into Asia, marked by risks, setbacks, and discoveries, transformed every person involved. It also led to one of the world's most studied and most debated travelogues. Marco Tabilio, an emerging talent of Italian cartooning, creates a graphic novel in the form of a puzzle and finds the coming-of-age tale within the legend of Marco Polo.
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 Travels of Marco Polo
Author | : Henry Yule |
Publsiher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 938 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783732620692 |
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Reproduction of the original.
Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West
Author | : John Tulk |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780802099280 |
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These essays challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings.
The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
Author | : Benjamin B. Olshin |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226149820 |
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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.
In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
Author | : Denis Belliveau,Francis O'Donnell |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2008-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742557376 |
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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.
Marco Polo Was in China
Author | : Hans Ulrich Vogel |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2012-11-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789004231931 |
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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.