Explorer (c. 1254 — 8-Jan-1324)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Laurence Bergreen. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. 415pp.

John Larner. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. Yale University Press. 1999. 264pp.

Keith Miles; David Butler. Marco Polo. Dell. 1982. 427pp.

Leonardo Olschki. Marco Polo's Asia: An Introduction to His "Description of the World" Called "Il Milione". University of California Press. 1960. 459pp.

Frances Wood. Did Marco Polo Go to China?. Westview Press. 1996. 187pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1178)

7. European Authors 1000-1900 (pp.737-38)

8. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.817)

9. The Catholic Encyclopedia (vol.12, pp.217-19)

10. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.55)

11. Slavonic Encyclopedia (p.1036)

12. A Short Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Literature (p.209)

13. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.401)

14. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.546)

15. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.362)

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