The Story Of Marco Polo

Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 Tabilio
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781512470826

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Marco Polo by Marco Tabilio Pdf

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 : Henry Yule
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Asia
ISBN : 1847247679

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Marco Polo by Laurence Bergreen Pdf

In September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians, led by Admiral Andrea Dandolo, son of the Doge, were defeated. Among the thousands of Venetians captives was one Marco Polo, gentleman, merchant of Venice, and sometime traveller to East Asia. Incarcerated in a Ligurian fastness, he told his story to a fellow-prisoner, a writer of romances named Rustichello of Pisa. The account of his travels that Marco Polo dictated to Rustichello in captivity - Il Milione - would be exceptionally widely read and would stimulate European interest in the East and its riches. Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanadu is Laurence Bergreen's thrilling and masterly reconstruction of the life and wanderings of one the great adventurers of world history. Between 1271 and 1275 Marco Polo accompanied his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo on a journey east from Acre into central Asia along the Silk Route, eventually reaching China and the court of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan. Entering the service of the Khan, he travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire. The three Venetians returned home by sea in 1292-5, calling at Sumatra and southern India before reaching Persia, and making the last part of their journey to Venice overland. Three years later came that fateful encounter with the Genoese fleet in the Adriatic...

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Asia
ISBN : YALE:39002005005815

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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Noah Brooks,Marco Polo
Publisher : London : J. Murray
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Asia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044022644306

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The Story of Marco Polo by Noah Brooks,Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Michael J. Rosen
Publisher : Creative Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1568462905

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The Million Stories of Marco Polo by Michael J. Rosen Pdf

Among the millions of stories ever told, the tales of the legendary explorer Marco Polo are the most renowned. Listen as an old-time scribe tells his curious young neighbor about stories that are worth remembering.

Author : Gary Jennings
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429999942

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The Journeyer by Gary Jennings Pdf

Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied "I have not told the half of what I saw and did." Now, in his new novel The Journeyer, Gary Jennings has imagined the half that Marco left unsaid as even more elaborate and adventurous than the tall tales thought to be lies. From the palazzi and back streets of medieval Venice to the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan, from the perfumed sexuality of the Levant to the dangers and rigors of travel along the Silk Road, Marco meets all manner of people, survives all manner of danger, and, insatiably curious, becomes an almost compulsive collector of customs, languages and women. In more than two decades of travel, Marco was variously a merchant, a warrior, a lover, a spy, even a tax collector - but always a journeyer, unflagging in his appetite for new experiences, regretting only what he missed. Here - recreated and reimagined with all the splendor, the love of adventure, the zest for the rare and curious that are Jennings's hallmarks - is the epic account, at once magnificent and delightful, of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Hans Ulrich Vogel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Travelers' Tales
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781932361711

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Marco Polo Didn't Go There by Rolf Potts Pdf

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 : George M. (George Makepeace) 184 Towle
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371556938

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MARCO POLO HIS TRAVELS & ADV by George M. (George Makepeace) 184 Towle Pdf

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Author : Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226149820

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The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps by Benjamin B. Olshin Pdf

Concerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one or another of the three daughters on them). Discusses provenance, authenticity, and history of the documents, known to scholars as "the Marco Polo Maps" since 1948, here discussed fully for the first time.

Author : Joan Holub,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780448445403

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Who Was Marco Polo? by Joan Holub,Who HQ Pdf

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 : Noah Brooks
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605202808

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The Story of Marco Polo by Noah Brooks Pdf

The author considered the story of Marco Polo one of the most romantic and interesting of mediaeval or of modern times, and in this delightful little book, he sets out to recount the adventures of the intrepid explorer. Intended for young readers, Brooks well-chosen excerpts from Polo 's own diaries also work as a comprehensive and readable summary of Polo 's writings, interwoven with the author 's own pointed observations and commentary on the traveller 's tale.This charming replica of an 1897 edition, complete with the original illustrations, will amuse readers of history and biography, and anyone who enjoys a rollicking story well told.American journalist and newspaper editor NOAH BROOKS (1830 1903) was a contributor to Harper 's Magazine and the author of American Statesman and Washington in Lincoln 's Time.