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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
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...
11) Marco Polo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of Marco Polo's life as well as his influence on history and the world.
14) Viking longboat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Describes life in the rough-and-tumble world of the Vikings, covering feasts, navigation, journeys, rituals, and raids.
17) Marco Polo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
North American edition.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of the Venetian explorer and the book based on his thirteenth-century travels along the Silk Road to the court of Kublai Khan in China.
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