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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
14.99 €
A first-rate storyteller, Lawrence Bergreen has created the most authoritative account of Marco Polo's fascinating travels to date, masterfully combining the genres of scholarly research, biography, and travel diary. The incredible odyssey, which includes all the fantastic circumstances of the life of the scion of a wealthy merchant family - from his youth in Venice and his journey to Asia to his return to Europe and the writing of a book whose history of distribution and interpretation is no less dramatic than that of its author - is presented in carefully selected and vivid detail. Drawing on solid primary sources and his own travels along Polo's route in China and Mongolia, Bergreen describes the life of a man who pushed the limits of knowledge and imagination of his contemporaries and analyzes the legends about him, separating truth from fiction and history from myth. The book has endured numerous reprints and has been translated into 14 languages.
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