Marco Polo
Marco Polo
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Zusammenfassung
The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there are 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?
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Marco Polo by Jonathan Clements
The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there are 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?
'A lucid, lively account supported by many useful and evocative illustrations' Independent on Sunday
Jonathan Clements is the author of Confucius: A Biography and Pirate King: Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty. He studied Chinese and Japanese at the University of Leeds. He contributed a biography of MAO to the Life× series.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781905791057 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905791054 |
| Titel | Marco Polo |
| Autor | Jonathan Clements |
| Serie | Life And Times |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Haus Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2007-08-06 |
| Seitenanzahl | 192 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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