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Who spent over twenty years exploring China? Marco Polo did. He was born in Venice, Italy, in 1254. At the age of seventeen, Marco Polo left Venice for China with his father and uncle. After traveling over mountains and through deserts, the Polos made it to China. There, Marco Polo met the emperor Kublai Khan and began exploring. <p> In Marco Polo: Explorer of China, author Kathy Feeney describes some of the wonderful things Marco Polo saw for the first time in China. Imagine what it must have felt like to have seen a giraffe for the first time or palace walls covered in gold. Read about Marco Polo's exciting adventures.</p> <p>Introduces the life and accomplishments of Italian explorer Marco Polo, who journeyed to Asia in the 1200s, became friends with Kublai Khan, ruler of the Mongolian Empire, and served him as an official messenger to other nations. </p>
- Author
- Feeney, Kathy, 1954-
- Publisher
- Enslow Elementary
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780766021457
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
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