The Travels By Marco Polo Book Analysis

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Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
Page : 26 pages
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Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9782806279774

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The Travels by Marco Polo (Book Analysis) by Bright Summaries Pdf

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Travels with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Travels by Marco Polo, which tells the adventurous tale of Marco Polo’s journey through Asia, discovering rich new cultures, religions and customs. The Travels was one of the earliest pieces of travel writing and inspired Christopher Columbus’ expeditions, as well as many other travelers, thanks to its detailed descriptions of the people and riches of the East. Marco Polo’s work also influenced European cartography and has been adapted countless times in literature and television, causing him to become an unforgettable figure in world history. Find out everything you need to know about The Travels in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Asia
ISBN : YALE:39002005005815

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The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian by Marco Polo Pdf

Author : Supersummary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1694179079

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Study Guide by Supersummary Pdf

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 105-page guide for "The Travels Of Marco Polo" by Marco Polo includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 198 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Dangerous Travel and Religious Differences.

Author : Marco Polo,Aldo Ricci,Luigi Foscolo Benedetto
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Asia
ISBN : 8120609492

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The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo,Aldo Ricci,Luigi Foscolo Benedetto Pdf

Author : Gary Jennings
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Henry Yule
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Hans Ulrich Vogel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : George M. (George Makepeace) 184 Towle
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : 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 : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141398365

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Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls by Marco Polo Pdf

'You will hear it for yourselves, and it will surely fill you with wonder...' In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book, the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India, recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times and explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested caves... Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Marco Polo (1254-1324). Polo's Travels are available in Penguin Classics.

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 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,Rustichello of Pisa
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1981255680

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The Travels of Marco Polo - Volume 1 by Marco Polo,Rustichello of Pisa Pdf

Marco Polo almost the first European man to reach the wonderful world of East Asia. The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Marco Polo when they where emprisoned together in Genoa, describing Polo's travels through Asia, Persia, China, and Indonesia between 1276 and 1291 and his experiences became at the court of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan.

Author : Denis Belliveau,Francis O'Donnell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Marco Tabilio
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : John Critchley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351919975

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Marco Polo’s Book by John Critchley Pdf

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