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[2] [3] His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco Polo (also known as Book of the Marvels of the World and Il Milione, c. 1300), a book that described the then-mysterious culture and inner workings of the Eastern world, including the wealth and great size of the Mongol Empire and China under the Yuan dynasty, giving Europeans their first ...
The name "Marco Polo Bridge" derives from the appearance, before its reconstruction, in Marco Polo's book of travels, where he praised it highly. The names "Lugou" or "Lukou Bridge" and "Lugouqiao" or "Lukouchiao" derive from Lugou, a former name of the Yongding. [2] In old bilingual plates, the bridge was also named as "Lu Kow Kiao". [3]
A number of scholars have argued in favor of the established view that Polo was in China in response to Wood's book. [2] The book has been criticized by figures including Igor de Rachewiltz (translator and annotator of The Secret History of the Mongols) and Morris Rossabi (author of Kublai Khan: his life and times).
[1] [2] The movie documents the first quest "to visit and document every region Marco Polo claimed to have traveled" using only land and sea methods of transportation. [3] Mike Hale of The New York Times writes that the documentary includes how Belliveau and O'Donnell "encountered Mongol horsemen and hostile Chinese security officers and ...
In The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo describes a visit to a city called Etzina or Edzina, [5] which has been identified with Khara-Khoto. [6] When you leave the city of Campichu you ride for twelve days, and then reach a city called Etzina, which is towards the north on the verge of the Sandy Desert; it belongs to the Province of Tangut ...
In Xanadu traces the path taken by Marco Polo from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to the site of Shangdu, famed as Xanadu in English literature, in Inner Mongolia, China. The book begins with William Dalrymple taking a vial of holy oil from the burning lamps of the Holy Sepulchre , which he is to transport to Shangdu , the summer ...
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Pilkington and Davis continue in Marco Polo ' s footsteps by traveling to India. In Mumbai, Pilkington and Davis visit a laughter yoga gathering, and participate in a Bollywood film called Chingari. [note 5] They travel to Varanasi by train, and take a boat cruise on the River Ganges where they observe the custom of cremation on the river. They ...