- Polo, Marco, in fiction, Fiction, Explorers, Historical Fiction
“'I have not told the half of what I saw and did!'--Marco Polo. Venturing across worlds that few had ever seen, he knew pleasures that few would ever dare. Only now can the story be told....”
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Gary Jennings
- First published
- 1984
- Pages
- 821
- Publisher
- Avon Books (Mm), Avon Books, Avon
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780689114038
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“ALTHOUGH the Polo family has been Venetian, and proud of it, for perhaps three hundred years now, it did not originate on this Italian peninsula, but on the other side of the Adriatic Sea.”
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