Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World (Yale Nota Bene)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0300089007
ISBN 13
9780300089004
Category
Biographies & Memoirs
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
266
Description
No mere travel account, the book that Marco Polo wrote after many years in Asia became one of the most influential of the millennium. Historian John Larner here explores for the first time the full range of influence of Polo's Book on the history of geography and exploration, showing why the Book came into being and how it played a key role in the development of European overseas expansion.
Number of Copies
1
