Who Was Marco Polo - Who Was...?

Informationen zum Autor Joan Holub is the author and/or illustrator of many books for children. She lives in North Carolina, where the famous groundhog Sir Walter Wally helps watch the weather at the Museum of Natural Sciences. You can visit Joan at www.joanholub.com. Klappentext Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But did Marco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all made-up? Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was . . . ? biography with black-and-white artwork by John O?Brien. Zusammenfassung Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China and forty-one when he came back! More than seven hundred years ago, Marco Polo travelled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan, seeing new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Harrison, Joan Holub, John O'Brien, Who HQ
• Assisted by: Nancy Harrison (Illustration), John O'Brien (Illustration)
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2007
• EAN: 9780448445403
• ISBN: 978-0-448-44540-3
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 195 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Who Was...?; Who Was?; Penguin Young Readers Group
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics