01163nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_220320 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 15.95 915.042 L325 Larner, John Marco Polo and the discovery of the world John Larner New Haven Yale University Press 1999 After many years in Asia, Marco Polo wrote one of the most influential books of the past millennium. No mere travel account, Polo's Book is a work that played a key role in the development of European overseas expansion. In this book, historian John Larner explores for the first time the full range and influence of Polo's Book on the history of geography and exploration. Larner assesses the findings of modern scholarship and offers an original account of Marco Polo and his family, of how and why the Book came into being, and of its reception over the centuries. Châu Á,Asia Mô tả và du lịch,Description and travel Gia Linh,Hải Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ