In the Footsteps of Marco Polo : A Companion to the Public Television Film (Hardcover)

from itbgc

This is an incredible book, which is well-written and filled with beautiful photography. Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell traveled along the route of Marco Polo and shared stories of their adventures, dangers, discoveries, frustrations, and joys as they made their arduous, 25,000-mile journe...

from Ella_Jill

This book was written by two American adventurers who repeated Marco Polo's journey in 1993, 700 years after the famed explorer, and were actually the first ones to do so - and no wonder. They crossed 20 Asian countries by camel, horse, bus, car, and sometimes by sea, through high mountain passes...

from ForeWordmag

Consider the indignities suffered by Marco Polo: a member of a wealthy family of Venetian traders in fabrics and spices, he traveled the winding Silk Road from the Mediterranean port of Ayas in Lesser Armenia through Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Tibet all the way to the poet-sung Xan...

from itbgc

This is an incredible book, which is well-written and filled with beautiful photography. Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell traveled along the route of Marco Polo and shared stories of their adventures, dangers, discoveries, frustrations, and joys as they made their arduous, 25,000-mile journe...

from Ella_Jill

This book was written by two American adventurers who repeated Marco Polo's journey in 1993, 700 years after the famed explorer, and were actually the first ones to do so - and no wonder. They crossed 20 Asian countries by camel, horse, bus, car, and sometimes by sea, through high mountain passes...