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Author: Gerry Bailey
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780778736882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA factual biography of the traveler Marco Polo within a fictional storyline involving local merchants in a busy street market.
Author: 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: Watkins Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781780280158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
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.
Author: Lilya Pavlovic-Dear
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9788691078508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gerry Bailey
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780778736875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigby and his sister, Hannah find Leonardo Da Vinci's palette in an antiques market and Mr. Rummage tells them about Da Vinci's life and how he made history.
Author: Gerry Bailey
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780778736974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe queen's diamond is the next big find for Digby and his sister at Mr. Rummage's market stall. Such a find has the vendor telling the children a wonderfully engaging story about England's most famous monarch. Easy-to-follow text will engage even the most hesitant readers.
Author: Samuel Willard Crompton
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1508175039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor many, his name brings to mind both the glory and terrible danger of exploration: Marco Polo. Come along as this informative and engaging book describes Marco's travels from his native Italy past many obstacles, to the farthest reaches of Asia and back home again. Experience the incredible cold of the mountains of Pakistan, the intense heat of the Taklimakan Desert, and the wonders in between. Meet people like the fabled Kublai Khan, lord of the Mongol Empire. At journey's end, readers will understand why Marco Polo takes his place among the most important explorers in world history.
Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-10-05
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1101157658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHis 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: Hans Ulrich Vogel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-11-21
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 9004236988
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel offers an innovative look at the highly complex topics of currencies, salt production and taxes, commercial levies and other kinds of revenue as well as the administrative geography of the Mongol Yuan empire. The author’s rigorous analysis of Chinese sources and all the important Marco Polo manuscripts as well as his thorough scrutiny of Japanese, Chinese and Western scholarship show that the fascinating information contained in Le devisament dou monde agrees almost pefectly with that we find in Chinese sources, the latter only available long after Marco Polo’s stay in China. Hence, the author concludes that, despite the doubts that have been raised, the Venetian was indeed in Khubilai Khan’s realm.
