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Eye on Books BOOKCAST|Laurence Bergreen "Marco Polo" Episode

The adventures of Marco Polo are world renowned. His 13th-century trade-diplomatic-possibly-espionage travels to Mongolia and China have become the stuff of legend - in fact, many people think it is just a legend. There's always been doubt that Polo even went to China. Did he go, or did he just pick up other people's stories and sell them as his own? That's just one of the things biographer Laurence Bergreen wanted to know. His book is called "Marco Polo."

[ Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:32:52 EST ]

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