The
City of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years
Before Marco Polo
by Jacob D'Ancona, David Selbourne (Translator)
In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on
a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China at the coastal metropolis
of Zaitun, the "City of Light" (now known as Quanzhou), four years before
Marco Polo arrived at Xanadu in 1275. Nothing was known of this epochal...
Hardcover: 528 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.71 x
9.35 x 6.42
Kensington Pub Corp; ISBN: 1559725230; (October 2000)
On the Trail of Marco Polo: Along the Silk Road by Bicycle
by Brady Fotheringham
Listed under Travel China
Invisible
Cities
by Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says
when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor
of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater
attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of
his." So...
Paperback - January 1986
Marco
Polo and the Discovery of the World
by John Larner
Marco Polo is important not because he traveled extensively in Asia
- other 13th-century Europeans did that - but because he wrote down his
experiences for others to read. In this excellent study, John Larner of
Glasgow University assesses the impact of Polo's Travels on the intellectual
society of his day. The book's contribution to learning was immense, giving
medieval Europeans new information that forever changed their understanding
of Europe's place in the world. Larner analyzes different versions of the
book, originally written in a Genoa prison and translated into many languages
within Polo's lifetime. He illustrates a number of fascinating early maps
and analyzes Polo's influence on later geographical and literary treatises.
Though Polo says very little about himself, Larner finds clues to his personality.
Polo left Venice when he was 17 and remained in Asia until he was 41; Europe
must have seemed strange to him, even uncouth, after his decades of service
to Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor of China, the richest and most sophisticated
country in the world at the time. Polo formed a strong affinity with the
Mongolians, which may explain his failure to learn the Chinese language
or mention Chinese customs such as tea-drinking or foot binding, occasionally
suggested as evidence that he never in fact visited China. Marco Polo and
the Discovery of the World demonstrates in straightforward language and
with satisfying detective work how the record of a man's travels became
one the most influential books of the millennium. --John Stevenson -
Amazon.com
Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.77 x
7.75 x 5.01
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; ; (March 1, 2001)
ISBN: 0300089007
Marco
Polo and the Medieval Explorers (World Explorers)
by Rebecca Stefoff, William H. Goetzmann (Editor)
Reading level: Ages 9-12
(Library Binding - December 1992)
Marco
Polo for Kids
by Janis Herbert
Reading level: Ages 9-12
The Far East comes alive in this activity book centered on Marco Polo's
journey to China from Venice along the 13th-century Silk Road.
Paperback
Marco
Polo: A Journey Through China (Expedition)
by Fiona MacDonald
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback - August 1998
The
Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, Ronald Latham (Editor)
Marco Polo's account of his journey throughout the East in the thirteenth
century was one of the earliest European travel narratives, and it remains
the most important. The merchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross
the entire continent of Asia, provided us with accurate descriptions of...
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x 7.77 x 5.03
Viking Press; ISBN: 0140440577; Reissue edition (September
1958)
The Journeyer
by Gary Jennings
Paperback - January 1984
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Myself and Marco Polo: A Novel of Changes
by Paul Griffiths
Hardcover - April 1990
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