Marco Polo

by Jonathan Clements

Overview

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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910376003
Publisher:	Haus Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2008
Series:	Life & Times
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jonathan Clements is an author and scriptwriter whose works include An Armchair Traveller's History of the Silk Road. He has also written biographies of Kublai Khan and Empress Wu, as well as volumes on China and Japan in the Makers of the Modern World series.

Table of Contents

Introduction     1
Fraterna Compagnia     5
The Silk Road     15
In Xanadu     27
Khanbalikh     39
The Fork in the Road     51
Cathay     61
The Finest City in the World     70
In the Khan's Service     77
Cipangu     89
Over Strange Seas     98
A Passage to India     106
The Return Home     117
The Million Lies     127
Notes     139
Chronology     150
Further Reading     160
Picture Sources     164
Index     165