Download or read book Marco Polo the Boy Who pb written by CENGAGE Learning and published by National Geographic Learning. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boy s Marco Polo written by D. F. Morgan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Polo went to China. All over China today are remembrances of his visit with his father and uncle. Proof of his visit even resides in the Vatican World History Collection and in the world maps he left behind in their family library in Venice. If any young person would like an easy and enjoyable way to become acquainted with the story of Marco Polo, he has only to pick up this book.
Download or read book Who Was Marco Polo written by Joan Holub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John O?Brien.
Download or read book The Story of Marco Polo Etc written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking for Marco Polo written by Alan W. Armstrong and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mark and his mother lose touch with his father's Gobi Desert expedition, they travel to Venice, Italy, and there, while waiting for news of his father, Mark learns about Marco Polo and his adventures in the Far East.
Download or read book He Went with Marco Polo written by Louise Andrews Kent and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Marco Polo retold from the point of view of a boy traveling with him.
Download or read book Marco Polo Junior the True Story of an Imaginary American Boys Travel Adven written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marco Polo Junior The True Story of an Imaginary Boy s Travel Adventures All Over China written by Harry Alverson Franck and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Guardians of Marco Polo written by Ches Sharich and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marco Polo written by Robert Strathloch and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an overview of Marco Polo's life as well as his influence on history and the world.
Download or read book Marco Polo written by John Bankston and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marco Polo was 17 the first time he saw his father. Soon after, he joined his father and uncle on a trip from Marco's hometown of Venice, Italy, to China. In the 1200s, that journey took several years and the three travelers faced many hazards. Once he arrived, Marco impressed the country's powerful leader Kublai Khan enough to become an ambassador and governor. He spent years crisscrossing China, then known as Cathay, in the Khan's service. He finally returned home, but a few years later he was imprisoned during a conflict between Venice and Genoa. During his imprisonment, he wrote a book that described places and sights few Europeans knew even existed and changed their view of the world forever.
Download or read book Marco Polo written by Kristin Petrie and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography introduces young readers to the life of Marco Polo. Readers learn about Polo's childhood in the busy port city of Venice, Italy, his education, and his family life. Readers discover that as a teenager, Polo traveled to present-day China with his father and uncle. A detailed map allows readers to follow this journey from Venice to Shangdu through Jerusalem and present-day Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, and Iran. Polo spent some time in Badakhshan in Afghanistan then crossed the Gobi Desert. The book discusses how Polo made friends with Emperor Kublai Khan and served as one of his ambassadors. Through engaging text, readers discover that as ambassador, Polo visited such places as Tibet, India, and present-day Myanmar. Polo's life upon returning to Venice is also covered. Readers learn that Venice was at war with the neighboring city of Genoa and that Polo joined the fight and was captured and imprisoned. Readers learn that during captivity Polo met writer Rustichello of Pisa, who helped him write a book about his journeys titled Description of the World. Full-color photos, an index, a timeline, discussion questions, bold glossary terms, and phonetics accompany easy-to-read text.
Download or read book The Travels of Marco Polo written by Marco Polo and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marco Polo and the Roc written by David Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Marco Polo visits the Emperor of China, Kublai Khan, he is given an impossible task. He has to find a mythical bird, the Roc, and bring one of its eggs back to the Great Khan."--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Marco Polo written by Keith Miles and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marco Polo written by Jonathan Clements and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there aer some suspicious omissions from Polo's text - no tea, no foot-binding, no mention of Chinese printing, or even of the Great Wall. Did Polo even go to China?
