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The Marco Polo Odyssey

Author : Harry Rutstein
Publisher : Danforth Book Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9780980207606
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Marco Polo Odyssey written by Harry Rutstein and published by Danforth Book Distribution. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marco Polo Odyssey tracks the fantastic journey of an intrepid adventurer who spent ten years following the 13,000 mile overland route of Marco Polo from Venice to Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and finally crossing China to Beijing. It is an account of an exhilarating voyage of discovery and the three expeditions it took author Harry Rutstein to finally fulfill his dream. Using every means of travel available including camels, farm tractors, horses and goatskin rafts author Harry Rutstein became the first person known to have retraced Marco Polo s footsteps. The book chronicles his extraordinary adventures and authenticates the 13th century journey of the great explorer. Marco Polo s travels and subsequent bestselling book sparked the expansion of the mercantile empires of medieval Europe and gave birth to the modern age of globalization. Excerpts of Marco Polo s book, Description of the World, are woven into Harry s narrative, which add depth and perspective to his

The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

Author : Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614982X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps written by Benjamin B. Olshin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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's Silk Road

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Watkins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780280158
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Marco Polo's Silk Road written by Marco Polo and published by Watkins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1290s, an imprisoned Venetian merchant dictated an account of his amazing adventures in China. That book, The Travels of Marco Polo, was an instant success. Though scholars once derided Polo's tale, today's historians accept it as accurate. The original manuscripts are long lost, but now, for the first time, a modernized hybrid edition has been compiled from translations by William Marsden and Henry Yule. Comprising nearly 150 chapters, this superbly illustrated, silk-bound abridgement of this seminal work is a treasure worthy of its subject.--Publisher description.

Marco Polo

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Marco Polo written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative biography of one of the most fascinating figures in world history, Marco Polos incredible odyssey--along the Silk Road and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life--is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail. Illustrated.

The Spirit of Venice

Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845951924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Venice written by Paul Strathern and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new history of Venice, which looks at the lives of the famous individuals of the Republic to try and define its character.

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

Author : Harry Rutstein
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Footsteps of Marco Polo written by Harry Rutstein and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1980 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Did Marco Polo Go To China?

Author : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980620
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Did Marco Polo Go To China? written by Frances Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Travels of Marco Polo

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Marco Polo written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Voyages of Marco Polo

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1866 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Voyages of Marco Polo written by Marco Polo and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 1866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Voyages of Marco Polo is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo's travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan. The Travels is divided into four books. Book One describes the lands of the Middle East and Central Asia that Marco encountered on his way to China. Book Two describes China and the court of Kublai Khan. Book Three describes some of the coastal regions of the East: Japan, India, Sri Lanka, South-East Asia, and the east coast of Africa. Book Four describes some of the then-recent wars among the Mongols and some of the regions of the far north, like Russia. Polo's writings included descriptions of cannibals and spice-growers.

The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

Author : Denis Belliveau
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742557375
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book In the Footsteps of Marco Polo written by Denis Belliveau and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Travels of Marco Polo

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486275876
Total Pages : 899 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Marco Polo written by Marco Polo and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Peril in the Palace

Author : Paul McCusker
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604828633
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Peril in the Palace written by Paul McCusker and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! The place? China in 1271. The quest? The golden tablet of Kublai Khan. The problem? Just about everything! The Imagination Station adventures continue as cousins Patrick and Beth are kidnapped by Mongol warriors. Only the friendship of fellow traveler Marco Polo saves them from harm. They are brought to the Mongol palace, where the Kublai Khan dislikes both their gifts and their message about Christianity. The tension grows when the Mongol magicians challenge the cousins to a spiritual power showdown. As war breaks out, Beth and Patrick are locked in a secret room to prevent their escape. How do the cousins get the golden tablet they need to save Mr. Whittaker’s friend Albert? How do they escape the city and find the Imagination Station? Enter the perilous palace and find out!

The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Marco Polo, a Venetian, in the Thirteenth Century written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Travels of Marco Polo

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120609495
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Marco Polo written by Marco Polo and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2001 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 1

Author : Marco, Pisa Polo
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465503560
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 1 written by Marco, Pisa Polo and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Travels of Marco Polo

Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602068615
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Travels of Marco Polo written by Marco Polo and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer MARCO POLO (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the emperor as his emissary, and journey the distant lands of Cathay for 17 years, as he relates in his Travels of Marco Polo? The question still hasn't quite been settled today... but whether Polo experienced firsthand the wonders of ancient China, retold tales he heard from Arab travelers along the Silk Road, or simply invented half his stories, this remains a delightful read for fans of history, adventure, and medieval literature. The new edition features illustrations from a 14th-century French version of Polo's manuscript.