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马可波罗游记book review英文版,

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马可波罗游记book review英文版,
Must include the following element
1:An introduction that will hook the following element(can be a joke,asking questionsor aguessing game)
2:Author
3:Plot,A brief outline of the whole story
4:setting:period,place,and environment
5:characters:a brief description of 2 or 3main characters
6:Quotes-one or two
7:personal reflection:your own critique of the book
8:Visual aid:can use pictures,ppt
马可波罗游记book review英文版,
1.see the following link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/nov/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview25
2.(1)Marco Polo (1254-1324), is probably the most famous Westerner traveled on the Silk Road. He excelled all the other travelers in his determination, his writing, and his influence. His journey through Asia lasted 24 years. He reached further than any of his predecessors, beyond Mongolia to China. He became a confidant of Kublai Khan (1214-1294). He traveled the whole of China and returned to tell the tale, which became the greatest travelogue. "He was the first traveler to trace a route across the whole longitude of Asia, naming and describing kingdom after kingdom.
(2)Born in 1254 in Venice, Italy, Marco Polo was the son of a prosperous merchant family.He was an Italian explorer of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries; one of the first Europeans to travel across Asia. He visited the court of Kublai Khan (see “Kubla Khan” under “Literature in English”), the Mongol ruler of China, and became a government official in China. His account of his travels was distributed after his return to Italy.
3.This description of his travels and stays in the Orient, including Asia, Persia, China and Indonesia, between 1271 and 1298 is also known as Oriente Poliano or Description of the World.[1] It was a very famous and popular book in the 13th century. The text claims that Marco Polo became an important figure at the court of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan. However, modern scholars debate how much of the account is accurate and whether or not Marco Polo ever actually traveled to the court or was just repeating stories that he had heard from other travellers. The book was actually written in French by a romance author of the time, Rustichello da Pisa, who was reportedly working from accounts which he had heard from Marco Polo when they were in prison in Genoa having been captured while on a ship.(From Wiki)
4.Venice, Italy and overland to Eastern China (Cathay)
5.(1)Kublai Khan(忽必烈), though ruling with all the spender of an Emperor of China, never forgot where he had come from: it is said that he had had seeds of steppe grass sown in the courtyard of the Imperial Palace so that he could always be reminded of his Mongol homeland.
(2)The Polo Brothers:Maffeo Polo and Niccilo Polo
6.(1)" I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice."
(2)"When a man is riding through this desert by night and for some reason -falling asleep or anything else -he gets separated from his companions and wants to rejoin them, he hears spirit voices talking to him as if they were his companions, sometimes even calling him by name. "
7.see the Contribution section at the link:http://www.silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo.shtml
or http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/nov/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview25
8.same as above