Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd EditionTwenty-First Century Books, 2013年1月1日 - 132 頁 Can one book really change the world? A handwritten manuscript by Marco Polo in 1288 did. Polo, son of a wealthy Italian merchant, wrote about his incredible experiences traveling to China with his father and uncle on a trade expedition, and also about his adventures as an envoy of Kublai Khan, the ruler of most of China. Polo’s book became a bestseller in Europe in the fourteenth century. It was copied over and over by hand, translated into fourteen languages, and became one of the first books to be printed after the invention of moveable type. The tales inspired others—including Christopher Columbus in the fifteenth century—to seek new sea routes for trade. Polo’s adventures—and manuscript—are one of world history’s most pivotal moments. |
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... Polo, a bright, curious teenager, sailed out of Venice on a twenty-four-year journey to China. The middle-aged man who returned to Venice was bursting with newfound knowledge to share. The book he wrote about Asia (known in English as ...
... wrote that their homes were like those of seabirds “stretching far away among the waters.” They hitched their ships to the walls, he noted, just as mainlanders do their horses. In the sixth century, Venice and other ports on the ...
... writing in the late ninth century, described Venetian traders in the Italian city of Pavia as selling peacock feathers, fine fabrics from Tyre (in what is now Lebanon), embroidered silks, and ermine skins. Queen. oF. The. aDriaTiC. In 1000 ...
... Polo is the one who later wrote the famous work, known in English as The Travels. One manuscript (hand-written copy) of that book says that when Marco was born in 1254, his father and Uncle Maffeo were away on business and that they did ...
... Polo learned. In about half of the notebook, the student wrote out math prob- lems that merchants might face, such as determining how to distribute profits among three partners who have invested. reaDing. roMan. nuMerals. although europeans ...
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Traveling Across Asia | 36 |
Marco Polo In China | 54 |
Marco Polos Book | 68 |
Marco Polos Legacy | 84 |
Primary Source Research | 94 |
Primary Source Document | 104 |
Whos Who? | 114 |
Source Notes | 120 |
Bibliography | 124 |
Further Reading | 126 |
Websites | 127 |
Index | 128 |
About The AuthorPhoto Acknowledgments | 132 |
Back Cover | 134 |