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Title Marco Polo : from Venice to Xanadu / Laurence Bergreen.
Author Bergreen, Laurence.
Publisher New York : Vintage Books, [2007]
Copyright ©2007
Description 415 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary An insightful portrait of the thirteenth-century explorer, adventurer, and global traveler follows Marco Polo from his youth in Venice as the scion of a wealthy merchant family, to his journey to Asia and role in the court of Kublai Khan, to his return to Europe, his introduction of such Chinese innovations as gunpowder and pasta, and his influence on the history of his era.
Subject Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? -- Travel.
Explorers -- Italy -- Biography.
Voyages and travels.
Travel, Medieval.
Asia -- Description and travel.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9781400078806
1400078806