Who Was Marco Polo?
Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the kingdom of Kublai Khan, witnessing new sights and riches. But did Marco Polo experience what he wrote about, or was it all made-up? Discover the truth in this entertaining Who Was . . . ? biography with artwork by John O'Brien.
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Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining highly readable Who Was . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John O?Brien.
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Grade: Grade 3-Grade 7
Brand: Grosset & Dunlap
Publisher Date: 07/05/2007
Author: Joan Holub
Dimensions: 7.62 x 5.34 x 0.25
UPC: 9780448445403
Ages: 8-12
Pages: 112
