The Life And Times Of Marco Polo

Author : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612289076

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The Life and Times of Marco Polo by Susan Zannos Pdf

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 : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545748428

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The Life and Times of Marco Polo by Susan Zannos Pdf

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 : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400078806

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Marco Polo by Laurence Bergreen Pdf

As 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 : James Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 1573350400

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The Life & Times of Marco Polo by James Brown Pdf

Author : Denis Belliveau,Francis O'Donnell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742557376

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In the Footsteps of Marco Polo by Denis Belliveau,Francis O'Donnell Pdf

Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With Polo's book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles becoming the first to retrace his entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. Surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, they were the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the deadly singing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. In Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, they lived with the Mentawai tribes, whose culture has remained unchanged since the Bronze Age. They became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan. Accompanied by 200 stunning full-color photographs, the text provides a fascinating account of the lands and peoples the two hardy adventurers encountered during their perilous journey. The authors' experiences are remarkably similar to descriptions from Polo's account of his own travels and life. Laden with adventure, humor, diplomacy, history, and art, this book is compelling proof that travel is the enemy of bigotry—a truth that resonates from Marco Polo's time to our own.

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 : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307267696

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Marco Polo by Laurence Bergreen Pdf

As 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 : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Henry H. Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258968541

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Venetian Adventurer by Henry H. Hart Pdf

This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.

Author : Henry Hersch Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015003523142

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Venetian Adventurer by Henry Hersch Hart Pdf

Author : Sam Rogers
Publisher : KidLit-O Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629172170

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What's So Great About Marco Polo? by Sam Rogers Pdf

Marco Polo’s sense of wonder started when he was young. As a child growing up in the streets of Venice, Italy, his imagination often turned to Asia and to what might be going on there. Little did he know that soon he would be traveling to that mysterious continent personally. You may know his name, but perhaps you've wondered, "What's so great about him?" This book (part of the “What’s So Great About…”) series, gives kids insight into life, times and career of Marco Polo.

Author : Richard Humble
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036131030

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Marco Polo by Richard Humble Pdf

The biography of a remarkable man, who started his traveling adventures at the age of sixteen and recorded the many marvels of this unique time and life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761454330

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Marco Polo by Anonim Pdf

Recounts the life of the great explorer who traveled more than thirty thousand miles by land and sea from Italy to China in the thirteenth century, and who was instrumental in opening up the East to Europeans.

Author : Jonathan Clements
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781910376003

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Marco Polo by Jonathan Clements Pdf

The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there aer some suspicious omissions from Polo's text - no tea, no foot-binding, no mention of Chinese printing, or even of the Great Wall. Did Polo even go to China?

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798656302777

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Marco Polo by Hourly History Pdf

Discover the remarkable life of Marco Polo...Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant, was a great explorer of far and unfamiliar lands. He traveled the world in order to find things that no one else had seen-but what did he really discover? The stories that he told upon his return to his homeland of the Republic of Venice were so unusual that his fellow compatriots often had a hard time believing him. When he described things such as paper money, gun powder, and coal, these were still so far out of the daily routine of the west that they seemed utterly bizarre to his contemporaries. But even now that Marco Polo's discoveries are less exotic and more commonplace, do we truly understand what it was that he uncovered? This book will delve deep into the life and legend of Marco Polo. Discover a plethora of topics such as On the Silk Road Coming of Age in a Faraway Land At the Court of Kublai Khan Stuck in Asia The Return Trip The Last Will and Testament of Marco Polo And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on Marco Polo, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!