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    <body><![CDATA[I have always been curious about Marco Polo. Now I know what all the hype was about, the guy witnessed some pretty incredible things. No wonder after he died many believed he fabricated these stories in prison to pass time and entertain others.  After Rustichello documented Marco's Travels it was re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33002532">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book.  Marco Polo brought the East back home to the West after being trapped in Kublai Khan's palace and kingdom for 17 years.  The good news was that allowed him to get to know the Mongols pretty well, and the Chinese some.  He learned about paper money, good sewage treatment, and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23062386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An exhaustive, but fortunately not quite exhausting, look at the life of Marco Polo.  This book is long, and dry in a couple of spots, but manages to depict the astonishing life of Marco Polo in magnificent detail.  Some of it may be conjecture, yes, but most of it seems historical verifiable--makin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13947779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was rather unimpressed once I finished reading it.  It came across as just another author attempting to offer analysis on <em>Travels</em> without giving that much analysis honestly.  While the subject is quite interesting, I was left bored in several spots, and considered just putting it away before it wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30005703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very interesting annotation of the famous work &quot;The Travels of Marco Polo&quot;.  Laurence Bergreen brings to this book an enormous amount of research, summarizing the findings a large number of scholars.  The book includes an excellent historical introduction that provides a cultural...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71121893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this as an audio-book and it was one of my favorites. Of course, I have heard of Marco Polo but I had no idea of the extent of his travels nor of the circumstances of the trip.  The book opens with a naval siege of Venice by Genoa, and Marco becoming a prisoner of war. During his time ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47961017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Laurence Bergreen, the author of books about Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, James Agee, and Ferdinand Magellan, traveled Marco Polo's route across Mongolia and China to conduct research for <em>Marco Polo</em>. Part biography, part travelogue, and part scholarly analysis, the book offers a glimpse of an exo...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45463012">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned so much reading this non-fiction book of Marco Polo's visit to Kublai Khan. We complain of a ten hour plane ride to Europe...It took Marco Polo, in the year 1271, 3 years to reach Kublai's court and then he stayed 25 years, in his service, traveling the Mongol's empire as his tax collector...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62669585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a life! This one ties in nicely with the Mongol history of the previously read book on Gengis Khan, centering more on Kubla Khan,his grandson, but much more entertainingly told. There are little lessons on silk production, boat builging, even the early use of 'black logs' - coal. I would never ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62382896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read Laurence Bergreen's documentary novel about Magellan and his wondrous voyage around the world, I couldn't wait to get my hands on his latest novel about Marco Polo. Although this book was very descriptive and well-written, it was not as altogether as interesting as my 5-star rated Magell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19599431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[MARCO POLO: FROM VENICE TO XANADU BY LAURENCE BERGREEN: Laurence Bergreen, whose last book, Over the Edge of the World, charted Magellan’s circumnavigation of the world, returns with a fresh and thorough biography on the remarkable and renowned thirteenth century traveler, Marco Polo.  Marco Polo ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9502904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A biography of Marco Polo's adventruse from Venice to Xanadu and his time spent with the Khan, rivals, thieves, beasts, etc. Extremely boring and dry. The meetings are not descriptive nor are they exciting in any way. Probably an exciting life, but not an exciting book. Only made it through a quarte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49776695">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yesterday (May 2009) the author of Marco Polo addressed the Las Vegas Literary Society luncheon.  He is a terrific speaker and gave us great insight into his research into Marco Polo's life.  I am anxious to get started on his book.<br/><br/>Marco Polo-From Venice to XANADU written by Laurence Ber...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50605699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't known very much about Marco Polo and had heard a number of different things so I picked this up to about him. I was totally captivated by Marco Polo and his history. The author makes a good attempt at weeding out fantasy and reality, and backs it up with research. You always hear about Marc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14616035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gives a great picture of the richness of the Mongol empire at a time when residents of Venice and Genoa thought they were the center of the world. Marco Polo defied many of the standard assumptions of the era, some of which are still held, and explored cultures vastly different from his own. The sec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20517626">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Feh.  An airport bookstore staple popularization of Polo's travels.  Seldom amounts to more than a retranscription - when it does it's often just a ludicrously speculative hyperextension of the text.  (See the exposition of Polo's heroin addiction.)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a hard book to like at the beginning.  I did stick with it and was rewarded by having a new respect for Marco Polo and for the author who was able to bring the wanderer to life.<br/>Laurence Bergreen is an excellent speaker and one of the reasons I enjoyed the book. It helped to have some ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73854020">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting story, but the writer presented this in an endlessly boring format of excerpt-paraphrase-excerpt-paraphrase...Would recommend readers such further for a better book on this subject.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of interesting information, but I wasn't as thrilled with the way it was presented -- I often felt as though the author was distracted by a particular bit of shiny, letting the main narrative lapse.<br/><br/>Still, worth reading if you're interested in the man or the time.]]></body>
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