Messer Marco Polo
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Book Description
"Marco Polo (September 15, 1254 - January 9, 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325) was a Venetian trader and explorer who gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorded in the book Il Milione ("The Million" or The Travels of Marco Polo).
Polo, together with his father Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo, was one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China (which he called...
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"Marco Polo (September 15, 1254 - January 9, 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325) was a Venetian trader and explorer who gained fame for his worldwide travels, recorded in the book Il Milione ("The Million" or The Travels of Marco Polo).
Polo, together with his father Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo, was one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road to China (which he called Cathay, after the Khitan) and visit the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, Kublai Khan (grandson of Genghis Khan)." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
About the Author
"Irish novelist Donn Byrne was born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne in New York on the 20 November, 1889. His Irish parents were on a business trip at the time, so soon after he returned with them to Ireland. He grew up being equally fluent in Irish and English, growing up in an area were Gaelic was still spoken.
He turns up as a singing, fair haired boy in the annals of Bulmer Hobson's Irish volunteer movement: in 1906, when he was 14, he went to a meeting with Hobson and Robert Lynd of the London Daily News. Lynd wrote of that meeting, mentioning the singing of a little fair haired boy -- that is, Donn Byrne. It was through Hobson that Byrne acquired his taste for Irish history and nationalism. In 1907 he went to the University of Dublin to study Romance languages. While at the school he published in The National Student, the student magazine. After graduation he continued his studies in Europe, hoping to join the British Foreign Office. However, he turned down his PhD when he learned that he would have to wear evening clothes to his early morning examinations, which he felt that no true Irish gentleman would ever do." (Quote from wikipedia.org)
Table of Contents
Publisher's Preface; A Note On The Author Of Messer Ma
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