Marco polo biography book

  • Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant, was a great explorer of far and unfamiliar lands.
  • In , at the age of seventeen, Marco Polo, his father, and his uncle, set off from Venice for Asia.
  • Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between and

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    The Travels of Marco Polo: The true story of a 14th-Century bestseller

    Anna Bressanin

    Features correspondent

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    Filled with wonders, Marco Polo's tales are the first European account of the Silk Road. But, years after the famed Venetian merchant and explorer's death, can they be trusted?

    Can a man who claimed to have seen a unicorn in the Indonesian island of Sumatra be trusted? This and other similarly valid questions have cast doubt on the truthfulness of Marco Polo since the 14th Century, when his book The Travels of Marco Polo became a bestseller and was translated into dozens of languages, hand-copied in countless manuscripts and available at any lavish court in Europe.

    Polo's tales are the first European account of the Silk Road, and they are full of wonders, spices, gold and precious stones. They also describe extravagant sexual habits as well as intriguing war strategies, making his travelogue a real pleasure to

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    Marco Polo

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    The amazing story of a Venetian trader who becomes an aide to the great Kublai Khan comes to life in this retelling for students bygd Manuel Komroff. Follow along as Marco Polo travels through deserts littered with bones, encounters animals previously unknown to Europeans, and comes to serve in the court of one of the greatest kingdoms ever known.

    Included fryst vatten a gorgeous new map tracing his journey, and 29 full page illustrations from an early edition written for adults.

    The ord in this edition is a reprint of the original Messner Biography, a series that was created for students. &#;Well told and with engaging narratives, they unknowingly flow nicely from story to fact. You will find a plethora of information packad between these pages, not only about the title&#;s subject, but the subject&#;s time and the world they lived in.&#;

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    Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures

    June 9,
    This was a slow, ultimately satisfying, year-long read for 3rd grade. I know a lot of it went over my kids' heads (only the eldest was in 3rd grade, after all), but I loved the vivid picture it gave of a time, a huge swath of the world—Venice to eastern China by land, then back via the islands of Indonesia, India, Africa, and Persia—and of the man Marco Polo himself. What an exciting way to do geography, steeping you not only in maps but also in the people, customs, industries, natural resources, climates, animal and plant life, and historical circumstances that those maps only whisper of. I was particularly fascinated by descriptions of the overland journey through central Asia: terrain and people that sound absolutely amazing, depicted so beautifully.

    And the whole book is well-written. Not as great as Kingsley's Heroes, but stylistically solid.

    Perhaps most of all, we loved how the book also acts as a biography; we ended up with
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