Marco Polo: To China and Back by Steven Otfinoski (9780761414803)
Steven Otfinoski Release Date: 01 October 2002 Format: Library Binding Pages: 80 Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY) ISBN: 9780761414803 ISBN-10: 0761414800
What must it have been like to be the first to circumnavigate the globe or traverse America from shore to shore? What political, social and financial factors of the day encouraged exploration? What personal dreams and desires drove these fearless men to search the vast unknown waters and lands, to tempt danger time and time again, all in the name of discovery? In Great Explorations, acclaimed authors including recent Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Milton Meltzer guide us through the adventures of the indomitable explorers who knew first-hand the joys and sorrows of pioneering.