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"Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu" - Signed by Author, Laurence Bergreen
- Item Number
- 128
- Estimated Value
- 30 USD
- Sold
- 28 USD to Kapahooloo
- Number of Bids
- 7 - Bid History
Item Description
New York Times: Marco Polo opened Asia to European trade, so we're told, but we generally don't know much else. Laurence Bergreen remedies that by bolstering Polo's reputation and arguing for his historical importance in a book as enthralling as a rollicking travel journal. Bergreen, who has written biographies of Louis Armstrong, James Agee and Irving Berlin, turned his attention to ancient explorers with "Over the Edge of the World," which tracked Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe. I was a fan of that book, but "Marco Polo" far outshines it, and not surprisingly.
New York Sun: In his splendid "Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu", the well-known biographer Laurence Bergreen offers not so much a conventional biography as the lively reconstruction of a supreme adventure. To accomplish this, he has assimilated a vast body of scholarly literature in several languages... He has woven this complicated, and often conflicting, material into a dramatic and beautifully written narrative. Best of all, he has himself retraced Polo's elusive footsteps in Mongolia and China so that as we read, we often seem to be but one stop behind the inquisitive Venetian. The marvelous plates, which include color reproductions of medieval miniatures as well as spectacular photographs of the Silk road and other exotic sites, enhance this unexpected feeling of immediacy.
Booklist: [An] exciting reconstruction of the extraordinary life of Marco Polo... impressively researched and deftly composed.
Hardcover copy.
Signed by author Laurence Bergreen
Item Special Note
Donated by:
Laurence Bergreen
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