Author :
Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 9780382090981
Marco Polo recounts his voyage to China where he served the emperor Kublai Khan for seventeen years before returning to Venice.
Author : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 21,5 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 : Dieter Wiesmuller
Publisher : Walker Childrens
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,26 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 : Diana Childress
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,3 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 : Frances Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429980620
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 : George M. (George Makepeace) 184 Towle
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781371556938
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Author : Carol Greene
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780516032290
Presents the life and adventures of the thirteenth-century Venetian merchant who wrote a famous account of his travels and life at the court of Kublai Khan.
Author : Jon Scieszka
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : China
ISBN : 9780756989231
Joe, Fred, and Sam experience sandstorms, desert bandits, a smelly camel, andstrange horoscopes, as they travel back to 13th-century China where they meetexplorer Marco Polo. Illustrations.
Author : Gian Paolo Ceserani
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Follows the adventures of the thirteenth-century Venetian merchant who wrote a famous account of his travels in Asia and his life at the court of Kublai Khan.
Author : Tim Cooke
Publisher : Travel With Great Explorers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,32 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.
