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Author : Alan W. Armstrong
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375833229
When Mark and his mother lose touch with his father's Gobi Desert expedition, they travel to Venice, Italy, and there, while waiting for news of his father, Mark learns about Marco Polo and his adventures in the Far East.
Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812996791
"Drawing on decades of first-hand experience as a foreign correspondent and military embed for The Atlantic, Robert D. Kaplan makes a powerful, clear-eyed case for what timeless principles should shape America's role in the world: a respect for the limits of Western-style democracy; a delineation between American interests versus American values; an awareness of the psychological toll of warfare; a projection of military power via a strong navy; and more"--
Author : Alan W. Armstrong
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375833229
When Mark and his mother lose touch with his father's Gobi Desert expedition, they travel to Venice, Italy, and there, while waiting for news of his father, Mark learns about Marco Polo and his adventures in the Far East.
Author : John Critchley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351919975
Marco Polo and his book may seem to have been well served by scholars, yet the majority have been concerned to write about his travels in Asia, what he did or did not see, and how useful he is as a source on the East. John Critchley’s subject, on the other hand, is the text of Polo’s book itself and the political and ideological context - the crusades, the Mongol missions, the French presence in Italy - in which it was put together by its author(s), and read by its audience. The homogeneity of the ’original’ Franco-Italian text and the accepted relationship between this text and the Latin recensions is tested by computer analysis. An examination of vocabulary and other textual features draws out the different attitudes and contributions of Polo himself and his various editors and translators. Critchley’s book will be of interest not only to those concerned with the history of later medieval Europe but also to specialists in medieval Asia, who will find it useful to know about the background and composition of so famous and frequently cited a work. On pourrait penser que Marco Polo et son livre ont été amplement débattus par les spécialistes en la matière, cependant la majorité a surtout écrit à propos de ses voyages en Asie, ce qu’il avait ou n’avait pas vu et sur son utilité en tant que source de références sur l’Orient. Le sujet traité par John Critchley par contre, est le texte même du livre de Polo, ainsi que le contexte politique et ideologique - les croisades, les missions mongoles, la présence française en Italie - dans lequel il a été composé par son ou ses auteurs et dans lequel ses lecteurs ont pu le lire. L’homogeneïté du texte franco-italien d’origine et le rapport accepté entre celui-ci et les révisions latines ont été analysés par ordinateur. Un examen du vocabulaire et d’autres caractéristiques littéraires fait transparaître les différences d’attitudes et de contributions entre Polo
Author : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781932361711
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.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Asia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004360855
Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429980626
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.
Author : Marco Tabilio
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781512470826
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.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Asia
ISBN : YALE:39002005005815
Author : John Tulk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802099280
These essays challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings.
Author : Henry Yule
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732620692
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612289076
Marco 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 : Joan Holub,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781101639894
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.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781602068612
It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer MARCO POLO (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the emperor as his emissary, and journey the distant lands of Cathay for 17 years, as he relates in his Travels of Marco Polo? The question still hasn't quite been settled today... but whether Polo experienced firsthand the wonders of ancient China, retold tales he heard from Arab travelers along the Silk Road, or simply invented half his stories, this remains a delightful read for fans of history, adventure, and medieval literature. The new edition features illustrations from a 14th-century French version of Polo's manuscript.
Author : Marco Polo,Milton Rugoff,Howard Mittelmark
Publisher : Signet Classic
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0451529510
Chronicling the 13th-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China. This edition includes a new Introduction and a new Foreword. Original.
