Author : Jacqueline Morley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780531205181
A humorous spin on Marco Polo's exploration of Asia.
Author : Tim Cooke
Publisher : Travel With Great Explorers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780778714347
Pack your bags-we're going on an incredible trip! TRAVEL WITH THE GREAT EXPLORERS takes you on some of the most remarkable journeys of exploration. Discover where the explorers went, why they went there, how they got there, and what went right and wrong along the way. Marco Polo's father and uncle had left on a trade trip to China just before he was born, When they returned years later, Marco was already in his teens. When the Polos set out to visit the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan again, Marco went with them. In China, he became the Khan's ambassador. On his eventual return to Europe, Marco Polo wrote a record of what he had seen, including beautiful cities, unicorns, and bandits who used magic to cause sandstorms. His account became one of the most famous travel books in history. Book jacket.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756511470
A biography of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer whose book about his travels across Asia and work for Kubla Khan helped to launch the Age of Exploration.
Author : Marco Polo
Publisher :
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Asia
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 022614982X
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 : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 161228907X
Marco Polo, the first European to travel to China and return to write about his adventures, was born in Venice in 1254. Marco's father had left on a journey to Asia before the boy was born. Marco did not see his father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, until fifteen years later. In 1271 the three Polos left Venice and headed for the court of Kublai Khan in eastern China. The journey took them more than three years—they arrived in 1275. Marco Polo became a favorite of the Great Khan, and was sent on important missions all over the Mongol Empire. Marco and his father and uncle served Kublai Khan for 17 years. When they returned to Venice in 1295, Marco became the captain of a merchant ship and was captured and imprisoned in Genoa. While in prison he and another prisoner who was a writer of romances wrote the story of Marco Polo's adventures.
Author : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467703796
Can one book really change the world? A handwritten manuscript by Marco Polo in 1288 did. Polo, son of a wealthy Italian merchant, wrote about his incredible experiences traveling to China with his father and uncle on a trade expedition, and also about his adventures as an envoy of Kublai Khan, the ruler of most of China. Polo’s book became a bestseller in Europe in the fourteenth century. It was copied over and over by hand, translated into fourteen languages, and became one of the first books to be printed after the invention of moveable type. The tales inspired others—including Christopher Columbus in the fifteenth century—to seek new sea routes for trade. Polo’s adventures—and manuscript—are one of world history’s most pivotal moments.
Author : Kathy Feeney
Publisher : Enslow Elementary
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766021457
Who spent over twenty years exploring China? Marco Polo did. He was born in Venice, Italy, in 1254. At the age of seventeen, Marco Polo left Venice for China with his father and uncle. After traveling over mountains and through deserts, the Polos made it to China. There, Marco Polo met the emperor Kublai Khan and began exploring. In Marco Polo: Explorer of China, author Kathy Feeney describes some of the wonderful things Marco Polo saw for the first time in China. Imagine what it must have felt like to have seen a giraffe for the first time or palace walls covered in gold. Read about Marco Polo's exciting adventures. Book jacket.
Author : Dieter Wiesmuller
Publisher : Walker Childrens
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780802787293
With stunning, impressionistic illustrations, Dieter Wiesmller takes young readers on a delightful journey of discovery. Marco Monkey grew up in a land of steamy tropical rainforests. Polo Penguin had never left the frosty cold ice pack of Antarctica. But the two adventurers share a curiosity about the world around them that leads them on a globe-spanning expedition that explores both the wonders of the Earth around them and the very nature of friendship itself.
Author : Milton Rugoff
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,39 MB
Release : 1964
Category :
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