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Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
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Drawing on original writings and walking in the footsteps of Marco Polo himself, Laurence Bergreen's Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu is the most definitive biography of the legendary traveler to date, separating the man from his considerable myth. Look inside Marco Polo (Click on thumbnails to see a larger image): ... »
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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The Cheese and the Worms has got to be the most ridiculously over-rated academic work of history of the past 3 decades. The author's central argument of the existence of an essentially unchanged Indo-European folk culture that spans both millenia and continents is both completely lacking in evidence and, from a theoretical view, patently ridiculous.
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Who Was Marco Polo? (Who Was...?)
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I agree with reviewers who commented on other books in this series-- these are an excellent introduction to biographies and chapter books. My husband and I have read almost all of these "Who was..." books to our now 11 and 9 year old over the past year. I find them easy to read aloud and appropriately illustrated. They lead our family to deeper discuss... »
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Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797
All around Venice (or Venezia as the Italians call it), you see a profound Muslim influence. In the archways above doors, in the windows of canal archite... »
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Adventures Of Marco Polo
Marco Polo told many tales of adventures that he went on with his family. He wrote a book called The Description of the world. To this day scholars are ... »
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