Marco Polo and the Silk Road.
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TextSeries: Oxford bookworms libraryStage 2Factfiles: Publisher: Oxford University Press, ©2010Description: 56 pages : ill. , maps , portraits ; 22 cmISBN: 9780194236393 (pbk.); 0194236390 (pbk.)Subject(s): Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? -- Travel -- Asia -- Juvenile literature | Readers | Explorers -- Italy -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | Silk Road -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature | Asia -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literatureDDC classification: 428.6 LOC classification: PE1126.H373 | M373 2010Summary: For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die. One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great markets in faraway places. For young Marco Polo, later the greatest traveller of his time, a dangerous, exciting world was waiting...
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For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die. One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great markets in faraway places. For young Marco Polo, later the greatest traveller of his time, a dangerous, exciting world was waiting...
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