Marco Polo's Silk Road: The Art of the Journey - An Italian at the Court of Kublai Khan by John Masefield, Marco Polo

Marco Polo's Silk Road: The Art of the Journey - An Italian at the Court of Kublai Khan

John Masefield, Marco Polo

272 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous slow-paced
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In the late 1290s, an imprisoned Venetian merchant dictated an account of his amazing adventures in China. That book, The Travels of Marco Polo, was an instant success. Though scholars once derided Polo's tale, today's historians accept it as accu...

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