Title: The City Of Light: The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
Publisher: Citadel
Publication Date: 2000
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1559725230
ISBN 13: 9781559725231
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Challenging Marco Polo's status as "first" to enter China, this journal of a scholarly Jewish merchant who sailed into Zaitun four years before the arrival of Polo describes the adventures of a medieval trader and adds another fascinating chapter to the classic encounter between East and West.

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David Selbourne is a distinguished academic who held a British Commonwealth Fellowship at the University of Chicago and has taught at Ruskin College, Oxford. He is the author of a distinguished work of political philosophy, The Principle of Duty. He lives in Urbino in the Marche region of Italy.

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