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U.K.
Sutton Publishing.
2007.
Map, colour as well as black and white plates, ix + 243pp, index, paperback. The incredible story of Marco Polo's journey to the ends of the earth has for the last seven hundred years been beset by doubts as to its authenticity. Did this intrepid Venetian really trek across Asia minor as a teenager, explore the length and breadth of China as the ambassador of the ruthless dictator, Kublai Khan, and make his escape from almost certain death at the hands of Kublai Khan's successors? Robin Brown's book aims to get to the truth of Marco Polo's claims. Covering his early life, his extraordinary twenty-four-year Asian epic and his reception in Italy on his return, this book places the intrepid Venetian in context, historically and geographically. What emerges confirms the truth of Polo's account. Polo, scholars now agree, opened vistas to the medieval mind and stirred the interest in exploration that prompted the age of the European ocean voyages. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 119290)
ISBN: 9780750934213
Related Subject Areas:
13th century
Central Asia
China
Exploration
Himalaya Mountains
historical figures
Travel
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