ADDITIONAL WEB RESOURCES
Learn more about Marco Polo and his travels at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Read more about Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell’s expedition in Smithsonian Magazine.
Read Volume 1 of The Travels of Marco Polo at Project Gutenberg. (English)
Read Volume 2 of The Travels of Marco Polo at Project Gutenberg. (English)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Beliliveau, Denis and Francis O’Donnell. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2008.
Larner, John. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Wood, Frances. Did Marco Polo Got to China? Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996.
Polo, Marco. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Trans. and ed. Henry Yule. London: John Murray, 1871.
SUGGESTED READING
Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.
Dalrymple, William. In Xanadu: A Quest. New York: Vintage, 1990.
Hedin, Sven. Across the Gobi Desert. Trans.H.J. Cant. New York: Dutton, 1932.
Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. New York: Kodansha International, 1992.
Humble, Richard. Marco Polo. New York: Putnam, 1975.
Moule, A.C. Quinsai, with other Notes on Marco Polo. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1957.
Olschki, Leonardo. Marco Polo’s Asia; and introduction to his “Description of the World” Called “Il Milione.” Trans. John A. Scott, and rev. by the author. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.
Pelliot, Paul. Notes on Marco Polo. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, Librarie Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1959-63.
Polo, Marco. The Description of the World / The Travels of Marco Polo. Trans. and annotated by A.C. Moule and Paul Pelliot. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 1938 [Reprint: New York: AMS Press, 1976].
Polo, Marco. The Travels of Marco Polo. Trans. Ronald Latham. Middlesex, England: Penguin Classics, 1958.
Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Rutstein, Hary and Joanne Kroll. In the Foosteps of Marco Polo: A Twentieth Century Odyssey. New York: Viking, 1980.
Severin, Tim. Tracking Marco Polo. 1st American edition. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1986.
Shor, Jean Bowie. After You, Marco Polo. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.
Spence, Jonathan D. The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds. New York: Norton, 1998.
Stein, Aurel, Sir. Innermost Asia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-se and Easter Iran Carried Out and Described under the Orders of H.M. Indian Government. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1928.
Yamashita, Micheal S. Marco Polo: A Photographer’s Journey. Vercelli, Italy: White Star, 2004.
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I’m a sixth grade social studies working on a unit of study about Marco Polo. Can you recommend any teacher resources? Loved the film!
excellent documentary…..can I purchase video and book…Thanks
Tallat
names of the songs/artists in the movie????
“We have not even to risk the adventure alone,for the heroes of all time have gone before us -
The labyrinth is thoroughly known, we have only to follow the thread of the hero path -
And where we had thought to find an abomination,
we shall find a God!
And where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence!
And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world!” – Joseph Campbell -
I placed this quote under the Resource section
because that is what it was (is) a resource of strength and inspiration that over and over again revealed itself to be true! I carried it with me and relied on it often “In the footsteps of Marco Polo”
Francis and Denis recently visited Green Acres School in Rockville, MD and presented the most amazing special assembly on their “Silk Road” journey. Perfect timing for our middle school students, studying Marco Polo – The film – In the Footsteps of Marco Polo is stunning. Here we were getting to have a dialogue with real modern day explorers! We (students and staff alike) were dazzled. Denis and Francis blended the past and present together effortlessly. It was a dynamic hour and a half and it went by much too quickly. Don’t miss an opportunity to see these guys in person if you can.