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.
馬可·波羅是義大利威尼斯商人、旅行家、探險家。在中國元朝期間隨從他的父親和叔叔通過絲綢之路來到中國。
回到威尼斯之後,馬可·波羅在一次威尼斯和熱那亞之間的海戰中被俘,在監獄里口述旅行經歷,寫出《馬可·波羅遊記》