Marco Polo and the Silk Road
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Bibliographic Information
Marco Polo and the Silk Road
（Oxford bookworms library / series editor, Jennifer Bassett, . Factfiles ; stage 2）
Oxford University Press, 2010
- : Audio CD pack
- : [audio CD]
Available at 148 libraries
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Description
Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.
For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die. One young boy listened, waited,
and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great markets in faraway places. For young Marco Polo, later the greatest traveller of his time, a dangerous, exciting world was waiting...
CEFR A2/B1
Word count 6,700
by "Nielsen BookData"