Who Was Marco Polo?

Author: Joan Holub
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0448445409
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
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.

Did Marco Polo Go To China?

Author: Frances Wood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429980620
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
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.

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

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 812

Book Description

The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

Author: Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022614982X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
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.

Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World

Author: John Larner
Publisher: Yale Nota Bene
ISBN: 9780300089004
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
In this engaging and authoritative book, historian John Larner provides a fresh view of the enigmatic Marco Polo, who, despite a deliberate cultivation of impersonality, continues today to engage the attention of readers. 17 illustrations, 12 in color.

The Travels of Marco Polo

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Signet Classic
ISBN: 9780451529510
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
Chronicling the 13th-century world from Venice, his birthplace, to the far reaches of Asia, Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot, horse, and boat through places including Persia, Tibet, India, and, finally, China. This edition includes a new Introduction and a new Foreword. Original.

The Travels of Marco Polo

Author: Marco Polo
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264733
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Recounts the adventures of the Italian merchant during his travels to China, based on Marco Polo's own accounts.

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

Author: Denis Belliveau
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742557375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
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.

Marco Polo Was in China

Author: Hans Ulrich Vogel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004231935
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 676

Book Description
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.

The Travels of Marco Polo

Author: Henry Yule
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732620697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 938

Book Description
Reproduction of the original.