Did Marco Polo Go To China?

Did Marco Polo Go To China?
Author: Frances Wood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429969546

We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only never went to China, he probably never even made it past the Black Sea, where his family conducted business as merchants.Marco Polo's travels from Venice to the exotic and distant East, and his epic book describing his extraordinary adventures, A Description of the World, ranks among the most famous and influential books ever published. In this fascinating piece of historical detection, marking the 700th anniversary of Polo's journey, Frances Wood questions whether Marco Polo ever reached the country he so vividly described. Why, in his romantic and seemingly detailed account, is there no mention of such fundamentals of Chinese life as tea, foot-binding, or even the Great Wall? Did he really bring back pasta and ice cream to Italy? And why, given China's extensive and even obsessive record-keeping, is there no mention of Marco Polo anywhere in the archives?Sure to spark controversy, Did Marco Polo Go to China? tries to solve these and other inconsistencies by carefully examining the Polo family history, Marco Polo's activities as a merchant, the preparation of his book, and the imperial Chinese records. The result is a lucid and readable look at medieval European and Chinese history, and the characters and events that shaped this extraordinary and enduring myth.

The Journeyer

The Journeyer
Author: Gary Jennings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1084
Release: 1985
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of the Aztec series comes a recreated epic account of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history: Marco Polo.

Marco? Polo!

Marco? Polo!
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-06
Genre: China
ISBN: 9780756989231

Joe, Fred, and Sam experience sandstorms, desert bandits, a smelly camel, andstrange horoscopes, as they travel back to 13th-century China where they meetexplorer Marco Polo. Illustrations.

Marco Polo

Marco Polo
Author: Laurence Bergreen
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In this authoritative biography of one of the most fascinating figures in world history, Marco Polos incredible odyssey--along the Silk Road and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life--is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail. Illustrated.

Little Bear and the Marco Polo

Little Bear and the Marco Polo
Author: Else Holmelund Minarik
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2010-09-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060854855

Since Else Holmelund Minarik's beloved Little Bear made his debut more than fifty years ago, generations of children have grown up with Little Bear by their side, delighting in his charming adventures and curious spirit. Now Little Bear returns to the world of I Can Read in Little Bear and the Marco Polo—a story filled with imagination, warmth, and tender memories that Grandfather shares with Little Bear.

How to Hug

How to Hug
Author: Maryann Macdonald
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761458043

The reader is invited to consider some things about when, who, and how to hug and also advised to be prepared to receive one in return.

Marco Polo

Marco Polo
Author: Michael S. Yamashita
Publisher: White Star
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9788854405875

Features color photographs taken by the photographer that retraces Marco Polo's expedition from Venice through central Asia, travels in China, and return to Venice by sea.

The Corporation

The Corporation
Author: T. J. English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2018-03-20
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0062568973

“A mob saga that has it all—brotherhood and betrayal, swaggering power and glittering success, and a Godfather whose reach seems utterly unrivaled. What a relentless, irresistible read.” —Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Border A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from "America’s top chronicler of organized crime"* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne. By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other than the Cuban mob. Known on both sides of the law as "the Corporation," the Cuban mob’s power stemmed from a criminal culture embedded in south Florida’s exile community—those who had been chased from the island by Castro’s revolution and planned to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim their nation. An epic story of gangsters, drugs, violence, sex, and murder rooted in the streets, The Corporation reveals how an entire generation of political exiles, refugees, racketeers, corrupt cops, hitmen, and their wives and girlfriends became caught up in an American saga of desperation and empire building. T. J. English interweaves the voices of insiders speaking openly for the first time with a trove of investigative material he has gathered over many decades to tell the story of this successful criminal enterprise, setting it against the larger backdrop of revolution, exile, and ethnicity that makes it one of the great American gangster stories that has been overlooked—until now. Drawing on the detailed reporting and impressive volume of evidence that drive his bestselling works, English offers a riveting, in-depth look at this powerful and sordid crime organization and its hold in the US.