Explore with Marco Polo

Explore with Marco Polo
Author: Tim Cooke
Publisher: Travel With Great Explorers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Asia
ISBN: 9780778714347

Pack your bags-we're going on an incredible trip! TRAVEL WITH THE GREAT EXPLORERS takes you on some of the most remarkable journeys of exploration. Discover where the explorers went, why they went there, how they got there, and what went right and wrong along the way. Marco Polo's father and uncle had left on a trade trip to China just before he was born, When they returned years later, Marco was already in his teens. When the Polos set out to visit the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan again, Marco went with them. In China, he became the Khan's ambassador. On his eventual return to Europe, Marco Polo wrote a record of what he had seen, including beautiful cities, unicorns, and bandits who used magic to cause sandstorms. His account became one of the most famous travel books in history. Book jacket.

The Life and Times of Marco Polo

The Life and Times of Marco Polo
Author: Susan Zannos
Publisher: Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2005-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 161228907X

Marco Polo, the first European to travel to China and return to write about his adventures, was born in Venice in 1254. Marco's father had left on a journey to Asia before the boy was born. Marco did not see his father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, until fifteen years later. In 1271 the three Polos left Venice and headed for the court of Kublai Khan in eastern China. The journey took them more than three years—they arrived in 1275. Marco Polo became a favorite of the Great Khan, and was sent on important missions all over the Mongol Empire. Marco and his father and uncle served Kublai Khan for 17 years. When they returned to Venice in 1295, Marco became the captain of a merchant ship and was captured and imprisoned in Genoa. While in prison he and another prisoner who was a writer of romances wrote the story of Marco Polo's adventures.

Marco Polo

Marco Polo
Author: Alexander Zelenyj
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780778724179

Separates fact from myth using excerpts from Polo's actual journals and illustrations and photos to portray Polo himself and his impressions of the unique traditions and customs of the Mongols.

Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd Edition

Marco Polo's Journey to China. 2nd Edition
Author: Diana Childress
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467703796

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.

The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps
Author: Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2014-10-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 022614982X

Concerns a collection of maps and associated documents claimed to be from Marco Polo's time or that of his daughters (as many of the maps have the name or one or another of the three daughters on them). Discusses provenance, authenticity, and history of the documents, known to scholars as "the Marco Polo Maps" since 1948, here discussed fully for the first time.

Marco Polo

Marco Polo
Author: Kathy Feeney
Publisher: Enslow Elementary
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766021457

Who spent over twenty years exploring China? Marco Polo did. He was born in Venice, Italy, in 1254. At the age of seventeen, Marco Polo left Venice for China with his father and uncle. After traveling over mountains and through deserts, the Polos made it to China. There, Marco Polo met the emperor Kublai Khan and began exploring. In Marco Polo: Explorer of China, author Kathy Feeney describes some of the wonderful things Marco Polo saw for the first time in China. Imagine what it must have felt like to have seen a giraffe for the first time or palace walls covered in gold. Read about Marco Polo's exciting adventures. Book jacket.

Animals Marco Polo Saw

Animals Marco Polo Saw
Author: Sandra Markle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780811850513

A continuation of the Explorers series by award-winning author Sandra Markle, Animals Marco Polo Saw brings to life the amazing, exotic animals Marco Polo encountered during his explorations in Asia, how the animals sometimes affected the outcome of the journey, and even helped the explorer survive!