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Fifth graders may have played this game in the swimming pool, but do they know that the name comes from a famous explorer who may have introduced pasta to italy by bringing noodles back from china. Oct 21, 2008 possibly because polo s account is also incomplete and fragmented, bergreen struggles to offer a coherent thread, with lots of seemingly random backward and forward jumps, lots of repetition ok, we get it, marco polo was a bit vain and embellished a lot. Bergreen based this book on the travels of marco polo which was dictated by polo to the writer rustichello da pisa. Innsbruck marco polo city map by marco polo waterstones. We offer guides and maps to over 200 destinations, from compact colourful pocket guides packed with insider tips to inspirational itinerary based guides in a unique spiral bound format, with.
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