Asia - Description and travel
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The Travels of IBN Battuta: In the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1326, Ibn Battuta began a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later. His engrossing account of that journey provides vivid scenes from Morocco, southern Russia, India, China, a… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Travel, Adventure
- Author: Ibn Battuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: December 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437655
- Language: English
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When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the Riches of the East
$17.99 Add to cartWhile European civilization stagnated in the “Dark Ages,” Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual co… [more below]
- Author: Gordon, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 030681739X
- Language: English
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The Travels Marco Polo
$18.00 Add to cartMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Polo, Marco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 30 1958
- ISBN10: 0140440577
- Language: English
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The Great Railway Bazaar
$21.99 Add to cartFrom legendary writer Paul Theroux, an epic journey across Europe and Asia in this international best-selling classic of travel literature: “Funny, sardonic, wonderfully sensuous and evocative…consi… [more below]
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0618658947
- Language: English
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Who Was Marco Polo?
$6.99 Add to cartMarco 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 … [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Holub, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0448445409
- Language: English
