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.