The Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Merchant Who Changed the World
Harry Rutstein
ISBN 10: 0980207606 ISBN 13: 9780980207606
Editore: The Marco Polo Foundation, 2008
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Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. With CD! A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Codice articolo H05J-00448
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The Marco Polo Odyssey follows the fantastic, ten-year journey undertaken by Harry Rutstein to trace the 13,000-mile overland route--Venice to Beijing--taken by Marco Polo in the 13th century. Using every means of travel available, from tractors to camels to goatskin rafts, Rutstein became the only person known to have authenticated and retraced Marco Polo s entire journey. In this book he recounts the experience, as a history wrapped in adventure.Marco Polo s travels and subsequent bestselling book sparked the expansion of the mercantile empires of medieval Europe and gave birth to the modern age of globalization.Using excerpts from Polo s own book, Description of the World, Rutstein weaves together a compelling narrative of the many colorful and humorous adventures he experienced along his journey on the now abandoned Silk Road. The interwoven historical commentaries, geographical and cultural descriptions confirm just how little has changed in 700 years in many parts of Asia.
Informazioni sull'autore: Harry Rutstein is not only a modern day Marco Polo; he s a recognized expert on the famed explorer s life. In 1985, after four years of research and ten years of travel, he became the first person to follow Marco Polo s 13th century route from Venice, Italy to Beijing, China. He is co-author of In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: A Twentieth Century Odyssey, published by Viking Press in 1980. He is a Fellow in the Royal Geographic Society (FRGS) and the Explorers Club of New York.
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Titolo: The Marco Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of ...
Casa editrice: The Marco Polo Foundation
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
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