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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 915.042092
Fabric Type: 9780742556836
Legal Disclaimer: 0742556832
Maximum Color Depth: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Metal Type: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 288
Total External Bays Free: November 01, 2008
Total Firewire Ports: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Features:- ISBN13: 9780742556836
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Did Marco Polo reach China? This richly illustrated companion volume to the public television film chronicles the remarkable two-year expedition of explorers Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell as they sought the answer to this controversial 700-year-old question. With his epic book, The Travels of Marco Polo, as their guide, they journeyed over 25,000 miles becoming the first to retrace Polo's entire path by land and sea without resorting to helicopters or airplanes. Surviving deadly skirmishes and capture in Afghanistan, they were the first Westerners in a generation to cross its ancient forgotten passageway to China, the Wakhan Corridor. Their camel caravan on the southern Silk Road encountered the singeing sands of the Taklamakan and Gobi deserts. They lived with the Bronze-Age Mentawai tribes of Sumatra, where Polo was stranded waiting for trade winds, and became among the first Americans granted visas to enter Iran, where Polo had fulfilled an important mission for Kublai Khan.
Accompanied by 200 stunning full-color photographs, the text provides a fascinating account of the lands and peoples the two hardy adventurers encountered during their perilous journey. The authors' story is mirrored by remarkably similar descriptions from Polo's account of his own travels and life. Laden with adventure, humor, diplomacy, history, and art, this book is compelling proof that travel is the enemy of bigotry-a truth that resonates from Marco Polo's time to our own.
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One of the best. It sure shows the times of today! The original journy was one that would be hard to match!
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Grab yourself a hot chocolate, sit back, and travel down the silk road and through all the exotic lands Marco Polo traveled in the thirteenth/ fourteenth centuries. The authors trace Marco Polo's route, starting from his home in Venice, through the middle east, Asia, Southeast Asia, and back again. In the service of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo may have been the most travelled man in history and his "Travels" brought the culture and geography of far off-lands to medieval Europeans. The two authors are ... Read More
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It's a good thing ESPN has ruined Monday Night Football.
On November 16th, 2008, after briefly listening to the longwinded, weird & obnoxious comments of Kornheiser, Tirico & The Blond Blowhard, I bolted, switching over to a PBS station - & inadvertently stumbled into the greatest thing I've seen on TV in at least the past 20 years: the video, "In The Footsteps of Marco Polo."
I didn't move for the next hour & cursed my luck that I had missed the first third of the program. ... Read More
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The first to follow in his 13th c. footsteps, all 25,000 miles, two New York City explorers combine lovely photos with casual prose as they leave Venice, trek overland into China and back again. Avoiding airplanes, falling into the clutches of Afghan warlords, and enduring Canton's hellish train station, they recount their own share of adventures.
What they find is how accurate "Marco Millions'" travelogue can be when tracing his route in desolate areas still largely the same as seven hundred ... Read More
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I expected it to be a coffee table book, when my daughter gave it to me, that no one ever looks at. But once I started reading, it was as compelling as any thriller I've read. I was truly sorry to put it down at the end and look forward to sharing it with family and friends. I genuinely felt like a travel companion experiencing the same ups and downs, exhiliarating and depressing times as they felt. They brought Marco Polo's travels alive and the text and gorgeous pictures beautifully complimented each other.
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