Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou

Further Reading

Articles

• Di Cosmo, Nicola. “State Formation and Periodization in Inner Asian History.” Journal of World History 10, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 1–40.
• Zhou, Gang. “Small Talk: A New Reading of Marco Polo’s Il milione.” Modern Language Notes 124, no. 1 (January 2009): 1–22.

Books

• Bergreen, Laurence. Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
• Carpini, Giovanni da Pian del. The Story of the Mongols Whom We Call the Tartars, trans. Erik Hildinger. Boston: Branden Publishing Company, 1996.
• Gordon, Stewart. When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East.” Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2008.
• Hart, Henry H. Marco Polo, Venetian Adventurer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1967.
• Larner, John. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.
• Rachewiltz, Igor de. Papal Envoys to the Great Khans. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1971.
• Riddle, John. Marco Polo. Broomall, Pa.: Mason Crest Publishers, 2003.
• Wood, Frances. Did Marco Polo Go to China? Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.

Web Sites

• “Marco Polo and His Travels.” Silkroad Foundation Web site. http://www.silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo.shtml.