Marco Polo S Journey To China 2nd Edition

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467703796

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Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd Edition by Diana Childress Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756501806

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Marco Polo by Michael Burgan Pdf

A 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 : Stephen Feinstein
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1598451030

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Marco Polo by Stephen Feinstein Pdf

"Examines the life of Italian explorer Marco Polo, including a childhood in Venice, his travels in China and the Mongol empire, his service to Kublai Khan, and his imprisonment in Genoa"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429980626

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Did Marco Polo Go To China? by Frances Wood Pdf

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 : Frances Wood
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996-08
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106012402803

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Did Marco Polo Go To China? by Frances Wood Pdf

Is there no mention of such fundamentals of Chinese life as tea, footbinding, 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,

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101157657

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Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

His 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 : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Asia
ISBN : UVA:X004101991

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

A retelling of Marco Polo's chronicles of his journey to the court of the Mongol emperor, Kublai Khan, in the thirteenth century and his lesser-known voyages. The narrative has been abridged and adapted with omissions for young readers.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307824127

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

Marco 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 : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Asia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004360855

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Fiona Macdonald,David Salariya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531144534

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Marco Polo by Fiona Macdonald,David Salariya Pdf

Describes Marco Polo's travels through Asia, and discusses the people and cultures he encountered.

Author : Hans Ulrich Vogel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004231931

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Marco Polo Was in China by Hans Ulrich Vogel Pdf

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.

Author : Marco Polo,Sir Henry Yule,Henri Cordier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780486275871

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo,Sir Henry Yule,Henri Cordier Pdf

A vast treasury of invaluable observations on the peoples and geography of the Near East and Asia in the 13th century. Detailed descriptions of cities, customs, laws, crops, animals, politicals, more.

Author : Marco Polo,Rustichello of Pisa
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1658 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547721987

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The Travels of Marco Polo (Vol. 1&2) by Marco Polo,Rustichello of Pisa Pdf

The Travels of Marco Polo is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan. The Travels is divided into four books. Book One describes the lands of the Middle East and Central Asia that Marco encountered on his way to China. Book Two describes China and the court of Kublai Khan. Book Three describes some of the coastal regions of the East: Japan, India, Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, and the east coast of Africa. Book Four describes some of the then-recent wars among the Mongols and some of the regions of the far north, like Russia. Polo's writings included descriptions of cannibals and spice-growers.

Author : Robin Brown
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752472300

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Marco Polo by Robin Brown Pdf

The incredible story of Marco Polo's journey to the ends of the earth has for the last seven hundred years been beset by doubts as to its authenticity. Did this intrepid Venetian really trek across Asia minor as a teenager, explore the length and breadth of China as the ambassador of the ruthless dictator, Kublai Khan, and make his escape from almost certain death at the hands of Kublai Khan's successors? Robin Brown's book aims to get to the truth of Marco Polo's claims. Covering his early life, his extraordinary twenty-four-year Asian epic and his reception in Italy on his return, Marco Polo places the intrepid Venetian in context, historically and geographically. What emerges confirms the truth of Polo's account. Polo, scholars now agree, opened vistas to the medieval mind and stirred the interest in exploration that prompted the age of the European ocean voyages. All who now enjoy the fruits of Marco Polo's incredible journey through Asia - whether in the form of spectacles, fireworks, pasta or any of the many products of the Silk Road - will find in Robin Brown-Lowe's book a fascinating portrait of a man who made history happen by bringing about the meeting of East and West.

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Shoe String Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025983243

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Chaucer's England by Diana Childress Pdf

Presents an overview of life in fourteenth-century England as historical context for Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," covering the social hierarchy and social mobility, views of the Church, warfare and rebellion, the Black Death, the Earth-centered universe and science, medicine, food, work, clothing, courtship, family, schooling, and recreation.