Marco Polo S Journey To China Revised Edition

Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467703796

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Marco Polo's Journey to China (Revised 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 : 51,9 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 : 55,5 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 : Stephen G. Haw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134275427

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Marco Polo's China by Stephen G. Haw Pdf

Marco Polo’s famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject of considerable controversy. One recent work on the subject argues that Marco Polo never went to China at all, and other scholars have pointed out apparent mistakes and important omissions in Marco’s writings, including his failure to mention the Great Wall, and his apparently erroneous description of the course of the Yellow River. Haw re-examines Marco Polo’s writings. The main arguments against his credibility have been negative, concentrating on things that it is argued he should have seen and noted but did not. The most serious of these supposed omissions are generally said to be his failure to describe the Chinese writing system, tea, foot-binding and the Great Wall of China. Yet Haw argues that what he does mention is impressive and argues strongly for his veracity. This book clarifies Marco Polo’s itineraries in China and proposes several new identifications of places mentioned. Relying extensively on original Chinese sources and supplemented by Haw’s wide knowledge of China, Marco Polo’s China presents a convincing argument and concludes that his work is an accurate, important and useful source from an extraordinary period of Chinese history.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Asia
ISBN : WISC:89097014351

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Marco Polo
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307269133

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

Now in a handsome and newly revised hardcover edition: the extraordinary travelogue that has enthralled readers for more than seven centuries. Marco Polo’s vivid descriptions of the splendid cities and people he encountered on his journey along the Silk Road through the Middle East, South Asia, and China opened a window for his Western readers onto the fascinations of the East and continued to grow in popularity over the succeeding centuries. To a contemporary audience, his colorful stories—and above all, his breathtaking description of the court of the great Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor of China—offer dazzling portraits of worlds long gone. The classic Marsden and Wright translation of The Travels has been revised and updated by Peter Harris, with new notes, a bibliography, and an introduction by award-winning travel writer Colin Thubron.

Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Marco Polo,Sir Henry Yule,Henri Cordier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 44,7 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
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Asia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044004360855

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Hans Ulrich Vogel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,8 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
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Henry Yule
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732620692

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Henry Yule Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Robin Brown
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 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.