Marco Polo: Marco Polo and the Silk Road to China
- ISBN-10
- 0756501806
- ISBN-13
- 9780756501808
- Series
- Marco Polo
- Category
- Asia
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Capstone
- Author
- Michael Burgan
Description
A biography of the thirteenth-century Venetian explorer whose book about his travels across Asia and work for Kubla Khan helped to launch the Age of Exploration.
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