[PDF.36kr] The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo

The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo

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 | #2854712 in Books |  Citadel |  2000-09-01 |  2000-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.71 x6.42 x9.35l, | File type: PDF | 528 pages

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||9 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Boring!|By Ramesh Gopal|In a word: BORING! This book would have been twice as good were it half as long. Selbourne has cut the end and would have done well to cut the middle as well. Jacob's incessant protestations of piety are tedious. He hypocritically condemns everyone around him for greed and self-interest but his own actions, though ostensibly high-minded, are also dicta|Language Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original Language: Italian|About the Author|David Selbourne is a distinguished academic who held a British Commonwealth Fellowship at the University of Chicago and has taught at Ru

In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China at the coastal metropolis of Zaitun, the "City of Light" (now known as Quanzhou), four years before Marco Polo arrived at Xanadu in 1275. Nothing was known of this epochal journey until 1990, when David Selbourne was shown d'Ancona's account of his travels, a remarkable manuscript that had been hidden from public view for more than seven centuries. ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo   |  Jacob D'Ancona. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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