Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: September 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780300079715
Subjects: Biography: historical; Geographical discovery & exploration; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Discovery And Exploration (General); Science; History - General History; History: World; ASIA; China; Asia - General; Expeditions & Discoveries; History / Asia; Earth Sciences - Geography; Medieval; 1254-1323?; Polo, Marco,; Travel, Medieval; Travels of Marco Polo; Voyages and travels
Description: "After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. No mere travel account, Polo's Book is a work that played a key role in the development of European overseas expansion. In this book, historian John Larner explores for the first time the full range and influence of Polo's Book on the history of geography and exploration.

Larner assesses the findings of modern scholarship and offers an original account of Marco Polo and his family, of how and why the Book came into being, and of its reception over the centuries."--BOOK JACKET.