Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
A China, Travel, History book. Marco Polo aprendeu a ultrapassar a sua condio de estrangeiro no...
As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, he has inspired six centuries of popular fascination and spurious mythology. Now, from the acclaimed author of Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (“Superb . . . A first-rate historical page turner”—The New York Times)—comes the first fully authoritative biography of one of the most enchanting figures in world history. In this masterly work, Marco Polo’s incredible odyssey—along the Silk Road and through all the fantastic circumstances of his life—is chronicled in sumptuous and illuminating detail.We meet him as a callow young man, the scion of a wealthy Venetian merchant family, only seventeen...
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Marco Polo aprendeu a ultrapassar a sua condio de estrangeiro no Imprio Mongol, para chegar concluso de que, agora que estava em casa, tinha-se tornado uma vez mais um estrangeiro. Laurence Bergreen, Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu // Depois de todos os hbitos de acasalamento e comportamentos que (Marco Polo) presenciara na sia, a ideia de monogamia conjugal talvez no fosse de todo bem-vinda. Laurence Bergreen, Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu // O mundo que Marco Polo explorou est perdido para a Histria de muitas maneiras, mas alguns aspectos importantes do retrato que ele traa so surpreendentemente contemporneos. Como mercador, compreendeu que o comrcio era a essncia das relaes internacionais e que ele se sobrepunha aos sistemas polticos e s crenas religiosas, que so autolimitadores Laurence Bergreen, Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu //
The book seemed to be largely a retelling of "Travels of Marco Polo", with a little bit of historical context and analysis added. It's a fascinating story, so it kept me interested. I just expected more after Bergreen's much better book about Magellan.Too often the author speculates on what Marco "must have" thought or felt about something.... I listened to this as an audio-book and it was one of my favorites. Of course, I have heard of Marco Polo but I had no idea of the extent of his travels nor of the circumstances of the trip. The book opens with a naval siege of Venice by Genoa, and Marco becoming a prisoner of war. During his time as a prisoner - which was in relative... Pretty interesting book about the life of Marco Polo, focusing mainly on his years of traveling to China and the far east, his relationship with Kublai Khan, and his interactions with various cultures of people he met along the way. We know about Marco Polo based on his own writing that he did while in a Genoese prison, written with...
