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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... Marco, stoneworkers carved a vivid calendar that shows people working at ... Polos perhaps owned a few books, which were expensive. They were hand-written on ... book. To become successful merchants, sons of Venetian nobles also learned ...
... book or the sources of the information it contains, it pro- vides clues to the kinds of things Marco Polo learned as he was growing up. It is possible that Marco Polo himself kept such a note- book with all the important information he ...
... Marco was fourteen, the doge died. Forty-one electors chosen from among the ... Marco announced the decision, Venetians hurried to the piazza (square) to find out who ... book. No doubt other Venetians, among them fourteen-year-old Marco Polo ...
... Polo's book says. These are either exaggerations or mistakes made by a scribe copying an early manuscript that no longer survives. But it was far larger than Venice. The walls around Hangzhou measured about 11 miles (18 km). Crowded ...
... polo's description of Kinsai is that polo does not mention the city's twelve gates. on each stood a stone watchtower, where guards marked the passing hours with a gong and kept an eye out for fires and criminal activity. instead, polo's ...
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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 |