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Marco Polo : from Venice to Xanadu / Laurence Bergreen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bergreen, Laurence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?--Travel.
- Polo, Marco.
- Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?.
- Explorers--Italy--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Travel.
- Italy.
- Voyages and travels.
- Asia--Description and travel.
- Asia.
- Travel, Medieval.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 415 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Europa
- The merchants of Venice
- The golden passport
- The apprentice
- The opium eater
- High plains drifters
- The secret history of the Mongols
- Asia
- The universal emperor
- In the service of the Khan
- The struggle for survival
- The general and the queen
- The city of heaven
- The divine wind
- India
- The seeker
- The Mongol princess
- The prodigal son
- The storyteller.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-391) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781400043453
- 140004345X
- OCLC:
- 137244730
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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