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Author: Michael J. Rosen
Publisher: Creative Editions
Published: 2016-08-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781568462905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the millions of stories ever told, the tales of the legendary explorer Marco Polo are the most renowned. Listen as an old-time scribe tells his curious young neighbor about stories that are worth remembering.
Author: Susan Zannos
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 161228907X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarco Polo, the first European to travel to China and return to write about his adventures, was born in Venice in 1254. Marco's father had left on a journey to Asia before the boy was born. Marco did not see his father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, until fifteen years later. In 1271 the three Polos left Venice and headed for the court of Kublai Khan in eastern China. The journey took them more than three years—they arrived in 1275. Marco Polo became a favorite of the Great Khan, and was sent on important missions all over the Mongol Empire. Marco and his father and uncle served Kublai Khan for 17 years. When they returned to Venice in 1295, Marco became the captain of a merchant ship and was captured and imprisoned in Genoa. While in prison he and another prisoner who was a writer of romances wrote the story of Marco Polo's adventures.
Author: Laurence Bergreen
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-10-23
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0307267695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the first European to travel extensively throughout Asia, Marco Polo was the earliest bridge between East and West. His famous journeys took him across the boundaries of the known world, along the dangerous Silk Road, and into the court of Kublai Kahn, where he won the trust of the most feared and reviled leader of his day. Polo introduced the cultural riches of China to Europe, spawning centuries of Western fascination with Asia. In this lively blend of history, biography, and travelogue, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen separates myth from history, creating the most authoritative account yet of Polo's remarkable adventures. Exceptionally narrated and written with a discerning eye for detail, Marco Polo is as riveting as the life it describes.
Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-07-05
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 110163989X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarco 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: Robin Brown
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780750934206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating portrait of a man who made history happen by bringing about the meeting of East and West.
Author: Janis Herbert
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2001-08-01
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1556523777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Far East comes alive in this activity book centered on Marco Polo’s journey to China from Venice along the 13th-century Silk Road. Kids will join Marco as he travels by caravan through vast deserts and over steep mountain ranges, stopping in exotic cities and humble villages, until at last he arrives at the palace of the Kublai Khan. Woven throughout the tale are 21 activities that highlight the diverse cultures Marco encountered along the way. Activities include making a mythical map, creating a mosaic, fun with Feng Shui, making paper, and putting on a wayang-kulit (shadow-puppet play). Just for fun, kids will learn a few words of Turkish, Persian, Mongol, Hindi, and Chinese. A complete resource section with magnificent museums and their Web sites invites kids to embark on their own expedition of discovery.
Author: Marco Polo
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 812
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cath Senker
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781403497512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow 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.
Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2012-08-29
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0307824128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMarco Polo’s account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of life in China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recorded customs, natural history, strange sights, historical legends, and much more. From the dazzling courts of Kublai Khan to the perilous deserts of Persia, no book contains a richer magazine of marvels than the Travels. This edition, selected and edited by the great scholar Manuel Komroff, also features the classic and stylistically brilliant Marsden translation, revised and corrected, as well as Komroff’s Introduction to the 1926 edition.
Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780756501808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
