Marco Polo, From Venice to Xanadu

Marco Polo, From Venice to Xanadu
Laurence Bergreen
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2008 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES

The celebrated biographer of Magellan, James Agee and Al Capone takes a crack at Marco Polo, covering not only his expeditions -- and his encounters with Kublai Khan -- in detail, but also his youth and later years, when his writing catapulted him to 13th-century celebrity status.  (EXP49, $18.00)





 
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