by
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Amilcare Iannucci
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars...