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Marco Polo - From Venice to Xanadu (Paperback)
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Marco Polo - From Venice to Xanadu (Paperback)
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Loot Price R412
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In September 1298, the rival Italian republics of Genoa and Venice
fought a fierce sea battle at Curzola off the rocky coast of
southern Dalmatia. Against the odds the Venetians, led by Admiral
Andrea Dandolo, son of the Doge, were defeated. Among the thousands
of Venetians captives was one Marco Polo, gentleman, merchant of
Venice, and sometime traveller to East Asia. Incarcerated in a
Ligurian fastness, he told his story to a fellow-prisoner, a writer
of romances named Rustichello of Pisa. The account of his travels
that Marco Polo dictated to Rustichello in captivity - Il Milione -
would be exceptionally widely read and would stimulate European
interest in the East and its riches. Marco Polo: from Venice to
Xanadu is Laurence Bergreen's thrilling and masterly reconstruction
of the life and wanderings of one the great adventurers of world
history. Between 1271 and 1275 Marco Polo accompanied his father
Niccolo and uncle Maffeo on a journey east from Acre into central
Asia along the Silk Route, eventually reaching China and the court
of the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan. Entering the
service of the Khan, he travelled extensively in the Mongol Empire.
The three Venetians returned home by sea in 1292-5, calling at
Sumatra and southern India before reaching Persia, and making the
last part of their journey to Venice overland. Three years later
came that fateful encounter with the Genoese fleet in the
Adriatic...
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