Marco Polo Marco Polo and the Silk Road to China
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.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Compass Point Books,
c2002.
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| Series: | Exploring the world
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Table of Contents:
- Explorer of Asia
- A city--and family--of traders
- Into Mongol lands
- Contact between Asia and Western Europe
- Marco's adventure begins
- Through the Middle East and beyond
- Servant of the great Khan
- Going home
- Soldier, prisoner, merchant
- Marco Polo today.
