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Author : Jacqueline Morley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780531205181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book You Wouldn't Want to Explore with Marco Polo! written by Jacqueline Morley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous spin on Marco Polo's exploration of Asia.
Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 054413320X
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Invisible Cities written by Italo Calvino and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
Author : Gary Jennings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Journeyer written by Gary Jennings and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the "New York Times" bestselling author of the Aztec series comes a recreated epic account of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history: Marco Polo.
Author : Samuel Willard Crompton
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508175055
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Marco Polo written by Samuel Willard Crompton and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, his name brings to mind both the glory and terrible danger of exploration: Marco Polo. Come along as this informative and engaging book describes Marco's travels from his native Italy past many obstacles, to the farthest reaches of Asia and back home again. Experience the incredible cold of the mountains of Pakistan, the intense heat of the Taklimakan Desert, and the wonders in between. Meet people like the fabled Kublai Khan, lord of the Mongol Empire. At journey's end, readers will understand why Marco Polo takes his place among the most important explorers in world history.
Author : Hans Ulrich Vogel
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004231935
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Marco Polo Was in China written by Hans Ulrich Vogel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1932361715
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Marco Polo Didn't Go There written by Rolf Potts and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Judith St. George
Publisher : Philomel
ISBN 13 : 9780399238680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (386 download)
Download or read book So You Want to be an Explorer? written by Judith St. George and published by Philomel. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of exploration tales, from well known discoveries to the less known but equally important tales of explorers who made significant finds throughout history.
Author : Dori Jones Yang
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375897275
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Daughter of Xanadu written by Dori Jones Yang and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athletic and strong willed, Princess Emmajin's determined to do what no woman has done before: become a warrior in the army of her grandfather, the Great Khan Khubilai. In the Mongol world the only way to achieve respect is to show bravery and win glory on the battlefield. The last thing she wants is the distraction of the foreigner Marco Polo, who challenges her beliefs in the gardens of Xanadu. Marco has no skills in the "manly arts" of the Mongols: horse racing, archery, and wrestling. Still, he charms the Khan with his wit and story-telling. Emmajin sees a different Marco as they travel across 13th-century China, hunting 'dragons' and fighting elephant-back warriors. Now she faces a different battle as she struggles with her attraction towards Marco and her incredible goal of winning fame as a soldier.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141023864
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Travels in the Land of Kubilai Khan written by Marco Polo and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves � and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives � and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. A profound influence on medieval Europe�s view of the wider world, this thirteenth-century account of a Venetian merchant�s amazing experiences in the court of the great Mongol leader, Kubilai Khan, remains one of the most fascinating tales of exploration ever written.
Author : Neil Patrick Harris
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385347014
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Neil Patrick Harris written by Neil Patrick Harris and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Neil Patrick Harris’s Choose Your Own Autobiography is one of the best celeb memoirs I’ve ever read.”—The Phoenix News Seeking an exciting read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this entertaining and innovative memoir, Neil Patrick Harris shares intimate and hilarious stories about everything from his early days in LA, life on the How I Met Your Mother set, secrets from backstage at award shows, and family life with David, Harper, and Gideon. In a fresh spin on the typical celebrity narrative, he lets you, the reader, choose which path you want him to follow. All this plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from his time as a child actor, and even a closing song!
Author : Laura Tremaine
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310359864
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. written by Laura Tremaine and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir and part guidebook, Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. is the invitation you've been waiting for to show up with your whole self and discover the intimate, meaningful friendships you long for. In spite of the hyper-connected culture we live in today, women still feel shamed for oversharing and being publicly vulnerable. And no matter how many friends we seem to have, many of us are still desperately lonely. Laura Tremaine, blogger and podcaster behind 10 Things To Tell You, says it's time for something better. Openness and vulnerability are the foundation for human growth and healthy relationships, and it all starts when we share our stuff, the nitty-gritty daily details about ourselves with others. Laura has led the way in her personal life with her popular blog and podcast, and now with lighthearted self-awareness, a sensitivity to the important things in life, and compelling storytelling, Laura gives you the tools to build and deepen the conversations happening in your life. Laura's stories about her childhood, her complicated shifts in faith and friendships, and her marriage to a Hollywood movie director will prompt you to identify the beautiful narrative and pivotal milestones of your own life. Each chapter offers intriguing and reflective questions that will reveal unique details and stories you've never thought to tell and will guide you into cultivating the authentic connection with others that only comes from sharing yourself. So let’s get started! Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First.
Author : John Williams
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590179285
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stoner written by John Williams and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Born the child of a poor farmer in Missouri, William Stoner is urged by his parents to study new agriculture techniques at the state university. Digging instead into the texts of Milton and Shakespeare, Stoner falls under the spell of the unexpected pleasures of English literature, and decides to make it his life. Stoner is the story of that life"--
Author : Kevin Sylvester
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442446080
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Neil Flambé and the Aztec Abduction written by Kevin Sylvester and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Neil arrives in Mexico City to partake in the Battle of the Chefs, he learns that Isabella has been kidnapped and it will take a dose of Aztec history and knowledge of buried ruins to find her before time runs out.
Author : Georgia Bragg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1547614528
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)
Download or read book How They Choked written by Georgia Bragg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes, epic failures even lead to super successes . . . sometimes they become deep dark secrets. But remember-to fail is human, to laugh about our shortcomings divine. From Montezuma II's mistaking a conqueror for a god to Isaac Newton turning from science to alchemy to J. Bruce Ismay's jumping the lifeboat line on the Titanic, How They Choked knocks fourteen famous achievers off their pedestals to reveal the human side of history. Successful “failures” include: Marco Polo Queen Isabella of Spain Montezuma II Ferdinand Magellan Anne Boleyn Isaac Newton Benedict Arnold Susan B. Anthony George Armstrong Custer Thomas Alva Edison Vincent Van Gogh J. Bruce Ismay “Shoeless Joe” Jackson Amelia M. Earhart
Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780545019675
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (196 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Marco Polo written by Russell Freedman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the life of Marco Polo.
Author : Donna Tartt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030787348X
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Little Friend written by Donna Tartt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson--sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” (The New York Times Book Review), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent.
Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306823969
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Genghis Khan written by Frank McLynn and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive and sweeping account of the life and times of the world's greatest conqueror -- Genghis Khan -- and the rise of the Mongol empire in the 13th century Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and Genghis Khan's rise from boyhood outcast to world conqueror. McLynn provides the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have ever lived.
