Marco Polo and His World, Sharon Kinoshita

Marco Polo and His World, Sharon KinoshitaNew Hardback Aged seventeen, Marco Polo left his home in Venice on a continent spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century. Imprisoned in Genoa five years later, he collaborated with Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa on a work they called The Description of the World. Their book recounted 'all the greatest marvels and great diversities of Greater Armenia, Persia, the Tartars, India, and many other provinces'. In Marco

Whether belonging to birds

Balloons were used to send messages out during the Siege of Paris and later found a role as observation balloons for the artillery

Utilising a wealth of rare and unpublished images from official archives

But after 1900 drugs were increasingly viewed as a social problem

embarked on aircraft carriers was followed by qualification as a flying instructor

folk religion

First and foremost

Graded from easy to challenging

and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today

In the dead of night

We all float down here

Henry Reece explores the full story of the English republic’s downfall