A01=Frances Wood
archival research techniques
authenticity of medieval exploration accounts
Author_Frances Wood
Blanc De Chine
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carpini
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Chinese historiography
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Eurasian trade routes
Fermented Mare's Milk
Friar Odoric
Gold Tablets
Great Tea Drinkers
historical methodology
Home Town
Il Milione
intercultural exchange studies
Italian Ice Cream
Leonardo Olschki
Lord Macartney's Embassy
Maffeo Polo
Mao Zedong
Marco Polo
Marco Polo's Book
Marco Polo's Description
medieval travel narratives
Niccolo Polo
Past Tenses
Persian Vocabulary
piano
Piano Carpini
polo's
Rabban Sauma
Ramusio Version
shi
toledo
Toledo Manuscript
Yongle Dadian
yuan
Yuan Shi
Product details
- ISBN 9780367315405
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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We all ?know? that Marco Polo went to China, served Ghengis Khan for many years, and returned to Italy with the recipes for pasta and ice cream. But Frances Wood, head of the Chinese Department at the British Library, argues that Marco Polo not only never went to China, he probably never even made it past the Black Sea, where his family conducted b
Frances Wood is head of the Chinese Department at the British Library and author of A Companion to China and The Blue Guide to China, among many other scholarly works.
