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Contains three graphic novel stories following the adventures of Geronimo Stilton who battles the Pirate Cats and their attempts to travel back in time and change history. Here Geronimo and his friends chase the cats to the Ice Age, to the time of Marco Polo, and to the studio of Leonardo da Vinci.
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"The son of a traveling merchant, Marco Polo spent his early years among the ports of Venice, Italy. As a young man, he headed eastward with his father and his uncle toward the lands of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. Their journey from Europe into Asia, marked by risks, setbacks, and discoveries, transformed every person involved. It also led to one of the world's most studied and most debated travelogues. Narco Tabilio ... creates a graphic novel...
45) Marco Polo
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A biography of the Italian traveler who became the first European to cross Asia completely and document his experiences.
52) Silk and song
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Beijing, 1322. Sixteen-year-old Johanna is the granddaughter of the legendary trader Marco Polo. In the wake of her father's death, Johanna finds that lineage counts for little amid the disintegrating court of the Khan as dynastic loyalties are shifting. Johanna's destiny--if she has one--lies with her grandfather, in Venice, more than a continent away at the very edge of the known world. So, with a small band of companions, she takes to the road--the...