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Elementary Grade level Social Science workbook discussing Marco Polo. ... Read more

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Discovered Many Lands Unknown To Europe, And Added Numerous Minerals, Animals, Birds, And Plants To Man's Knowledge. ... Read more

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Discovered Many Lands Unknown To Europe, And Added Numerous Minerals, Animals, Birds, And Plants To Man's Knowledge. ... Read more

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Describes the travels of the medieval Italian explorer and his adventures and discoveries in the Far East. ... Read more

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Follow the thrilling adventures of Marco Polo as he travels across Europe from Italy and into Asia. Ride with Marco across the Gobi Desert. Read about Marco s meetings with the Great Kublai Khan. Authors: Alex Bandon Grade Level: 3 and up Format: 48 pages, softcover Publisher: Steadwell BooksISBN: 0739821369 ... Read more

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Chapters: Marco Polo, Aurel Stein, Sven Hedin, Albert Grünwedel, Xuanzang, Zhang Qian, Bento de Góis, Francis Younghusband, Nikolai Przhevalsky, Ármin Vámbéry, Riccoldo Da Monte Di Croce, Nikolai Yadrintsev, Ippolito Desideri, William Moorcroft, Vladimir Obruchev, Ban Chao, Alexander Cunningham, Grigory Potanin, Paul Pelliot, Ban Yong, Alexander Burnes, John Wood, Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Estêvão Cacella, Langdon Warner, George Pereira, Albert Von le Coq, Gunnar Jarring, Pyotr Kozlov, Nikolai Petrovsky, Eric Teichman, Vasily Radlov, George Macartney, Ralph Cobbold, Ole Olufsen, Károly Jenő Ujfalvy, Eizaburo Nomura, Yu Chunshun, Zuicho Tachibana. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 190. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sven Anders Hedin KNO1kl RVO (19 February 1865 in Stockholm 26 November 1952 in Stockholm) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, and travel writer, as well as an illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia he discovered the Transhimalaya (once named the Hedin Range in his honor) and the sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers, Lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. The posthumous publication of his Central Asia atlas marked the conclusion of his lifes work. Sven Hedin - oil painting by Carl Emil Österman (1923). Sven Hedin lived with family members in the upper three stories this house in Stockholm, Norr Mälarstrand 66, from 1935 until his death in 1952. At 15 years of age, Sven Hedin witnessed the triumphal return of the Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld after his first navigation of the Northern Sea Route. From that moment on, young Sven aspired to become an explorer. His studies under the German geographer and China expe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=529134 ... Read more

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52 PAGES IN THIS SOFT COVER, AGES 6 TO 10. ... Read more