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Author
Publisher
A Harvest Book, Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
165 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. "Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant" (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When they lose touch with his father's Gobi Desert expedition, eleven-year-old Mark accompanies his mother to Venice, Italy, and there, while waiting for news of his father, learns about the legendary Marco Polo and his adventures in the Far East.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
415 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
A portrait of the thirteenth-century explorer, adventurer, and global traveler follows Marco Polo from his youth in Venice to his journey to Asia and role in the court of Kublai Khan, to his return to Europe, and discusses his influence on the history of his era.
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Description
Examines the long and arduous journey to the Far East taken by Marco Polo and his companions, which took more than twenty years to complete and included extreme travel conditions, hostile armies, and strange animals.
6) Marco? Polo!
Author
Series
Time warp trio series volume 16
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
90 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The Time Warp Trio find themselves in a desert in China, and in order to retrieve their magical book from the court of Kublai Khan, they must pose as astrologers and join the caravan of Marco Polo and his father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Description
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?
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
723 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Description
In Beijing, 1322 Sixteen-year-old Wu Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan. Johanna's destiny--if she has one--lies with her grandfather, in Venice. So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road--the Silk Road--that storied collection of routes that link the silks of Cathay, the spices of...
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 546 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, the series is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in thirteenth century China.
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