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. The scion of a prosperous and tight-knit merchant family in a Venetian republic that was approaching the height of its political and trading power, 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.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Quercus
ISBN: 9781847244796
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 07/12/2007
Año de edición: 2008
Plaza de edición: London
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Escrito por Laurence Bergreen
Laurence Bergreen (Nueva York), profesor e historiador licenciado por la Universidad de Harvard, es autor de cuatro biografías sobre Marco Polo, Cristóbal Colón, Magallanes y Louis Armstrong, cada una considerada la obra definitiva sobre su protagonista.