Book
Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures
- Published
- 1880
- Genre
- Biography
- Pages
- 312
- Words
- 57903
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23305982-marco-polo?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 8–11
- Ambleside year
- Year 3 onwards · ages 8–11
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The reader is carried back, in the present volume, to a period two centuries previous to the discovery of the route to India by Vasco da Gama, and to the conquest of Peru by Pizarro. A young Venetian of the thirteenth century, brought up amid luxury and wealth, of a bold spirit and a curious mind, went forth from his home in the beautiful Queen City of the Adriatic, and for many years lived among a far-off Asiatic people, and at a court of barbaric and yet splendid pomp.
Tags
AdventureChinaHistoryPoloTravel