Author

Publication

1999-09-10 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL9605214M
  • ISBN-139780300079715
  • ISBN-100300079710
  • OCLC Control Number40990259
  • Library of Congress Control Number99024887
and 2 more
  • Goodreads1675839
  • LibraryThing195824

Classifications

  • LCCG370.P9L27 1999

Description

"After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. No mere travel account, Polo's Book is a work that played a key role in the development of European overseas expansion. In this book, historian John Larner explores for the first time the full range and influence of Polo's Book on the history of geography and exploration. Larner assesses the findings of modern scholarship and offers an original account of Marco Polo and his family, of how and why the Book came into being, and of its reception over the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Marco Polo and the Discovery of the WorldHardcoverYale University Press1999-09-10

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