MARCO POLO HIS TRAVELS & ADV

MARCO POLO HIS TRAVELS & ADV

Author: George M. (George Makepeace) 184 Towle

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781371556938

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Marco Polo Didn't Go There

Marco Polo Didn't Go There

Author: Rolf Potts

Publisher: Travelers' Tales

Published: 2009-04-01

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1932361715

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Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys—from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram. Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing, with each chapter containing a “commentary track”—endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers.


Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd Edition

Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd Edition

Author: Diana Childress

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1467703796

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Can one book really change the world? A handwritten manuscript by Marco Polo in 1288 did. Polo, son of a wealthy Italian merchant, wrote about his incredible experiences traveling to China with his father and uncle on a trade expedition, and also about his adventures as an envoy of Kublai Khan, the ruler of most of China. Polo’s book became a bestseller in Europe in the fourteenth century. It was copied over and over by hand, translated into fourteen languages, and became one of the first books to be printed after the invention of moveable type. The tales inspired others—including Christopher Columbus in the fifteenth century—to seek new sea routes for trade. Polo’s adventures—and manuscript—are one of world history’s most pivotal moments.


Did Marco Polo Go To China?

Did Marco Polo Go To China?

Author: Frances Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-19

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0429980620

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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.


Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Author: Laurence Bergreen

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13:

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In this authoritative biography of one of the most fascinating figures in world history, Marco Polos incredible odyssey--along the Silk Road and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life--is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail. Illustrated.


Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Author: Marco Tabilio

Publisher: Graphic Universe ™

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1512470821

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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.


Marco Polo Was in China

Marco Polo Was in China

Author: Hans Ulrich Vogel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-11-21

Total Pages: 676

ISBN-13: 9004231935

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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.


Tracking Marco Polo

Tracking Marco Polo

Author: Timothy Severin

Publisher: Peter Bedrick Books

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13:

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Using the great explorer's journals as a guide, Severin retraces his route from Venice to the Kindu Kush on motorcycle.