num_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.
language: English
title: Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World
titlecomplete: Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World
characters: Marco Polo
genres: Biography, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 43
publisher: Yale University Press