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• Title:Did Marco Polo go to China? / Frances Wood.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wood, Frances.
  
• Published/Created:London : Secker & Warburg, 1995
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: G370.P9 W66 1995
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
  Voyages and travels.
  Explorers--Italy--Biography.
  China--Description and travel.
  
• Description:vii, 182 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0436203847 (paperback)
  0436201666 (hardback)
  
• Contents:1. bare details
  2. Why go at all?
  3. Missionaries nose to tail
  4. Prester John and the Magi
  5. Not an itinerary
  6. ghost writer and the first fan
  7. language of the text
  8. Omissions and inclusions
  9. Ice-cream and spaghetti
  10. Walls within walls
  11. He missed the biggest wall
  12. Not unique and certainly not a siege engineer
  13. Who were the Polos?
  14. Was it China?
  15. significant absence.