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100 1 $aWood, Frances,$d1948-
245 10 $aDid Marco Polo go to China? /$cFrances Wood.
260 $aBoulder, Colo. :$bWestview Press,$c1996.
300 $a1 online resource (ix, 187 pages) :$billustrations, map
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500 $aOriginally published: London : Secker & Warburg, 1995.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 175-179) and index.
588 0 $aPrint version record.
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505 00 $gThe bare details -- Why go at all? -- Missionaries nose to tail -- Prester John and the Magi -- Not an itinerary -- The ghost writer and the first fan -- The language of the text -- Omissions and inclusions -- Ice-cream and spaghetti -- Walls within walls -- He missed the biggest wall -- Not unique and certainly not a siege engineer -- Who were the Polos? -- Was it China? -- A significant absence.$tFar East Cruise.
520 $aMarco Polo claimed to have traveled from Venice to the exotic and distant East. His epic book describing his extraordinary adventures, A Description of the World, ranks among the most famous and influential books ever published. In this fascinating, piece of historical detection, marking the 700th anniversary of Polo's journey. Frances Wood questions whether Marco Polo ever reached the country he so vividly described. Why, in his romantic and seemingly detailed account,
520 $aIs there no mention of such fundamentals of Chinese life as tea, footbinding, or even the Great Wall? Did he really bring back pasta and ice cream to Italy? And why, given China's extensive and even obsessive record-keeping, is there no mention of Marco Polo anywhere in the archives? Sure to spark controversy, Did Marco Polo Go to China tries to solve these and other inconsistencies by carefully examining the Polo family history, Marco Polo's activities as a merchant,
520 $aThe preparation of his book, and the imperial Chinese records. The result is a lucid and readable look at medieval European and Chinese history and the characters and events that shaped this extraordinary and enduring myth. In a new Afterword to this North American edition, Frances Wood responds to questions raised by her critics in the controversy that followed the publication of the original British edition of the book.
600 10 $aPolo, Marco,$d1254-1323?$tTravels of Marco Polo.
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651 0 $aChina$xDescription and travel.
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651 6 $aChine$xDescriptions et voyages.
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