Events

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In the Footsteps of Marco Polo:
An International Symposium on Italy-China Cultural Exchange in the 13th--17th Centuries
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006
Time: 8:30am-12:00pm
Location: Members Room, LJ-162, 1st floor, South Wing, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress
1st Street and Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC

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Members Room, LJ-162, Jefferson Building

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"A Journey with Marco Polo"
by Michael Yamashita and Mike Edwards
Photographer and Writer of "Maro Polo: A Photographer's Journey"
Perhaps no land journey in history is more famous than Marco Polo’s trek across Asia to China. As described in his book, The Description of the World, completed in about 1299, the Venetian encountered such wonders as the “singing sand dunes� of Dunhuang, China, “mountains of salt� in present-day Afghanistan, and the glories of the Mongol court of Kublai Khan. Europeans were fascinated by Polo’s account of such unknown wonders as paper money and the rock that burned—coal. But Marco’s book also contained exaggerations and often outrageous falsehoods, ammunition for a legion of doubters as old as the book itself.

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Members Room, LJ-162, Jefferson Building