[act-ma] Marco Polo Oct 17 Cambridge Forum

[Cambridge Forum]

>Cambridge Forum
> 3 Church Street ● Cambridge, MA 02138
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>MARCO POLO: From Venice to Xanadu
>7:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 24, 2007
>Cambridge Forum
>3 Church Street
>Cambridge, MA 02138
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>Free and Open to the Public
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>Press Release
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>Prize winning biographer Laurence Bergreen discusses his latest book Marco Polo: from Venice to Xanada at Cambridge Forum on Wednesday October 24 at 7:30 p.m. Written after he re-traced Marco Polo famous route across Mongolia and China,  Bergreen re-tells the well known story with incredible new detail: a callow youth of seventeen, traveling with his father and uncle to Asia in 1271, incredibly gains the confidence of the world most powerful warrior, Kublai Khan, lives in his court for 24 years and returns  to Venice with the latest inventions, great stories and wealth.  What were the personal qualities that made Marco Polo the earliest bridge between east and west?  At a time when Europeans perceived China as a land of untutored savages, how did Marco Polo break through these prejudices to become a trusted advisor to the highest level of Chinese society?  How did his book–Travels, recorded by a fellow prisoner in the Genoese jail–come to have such a big impact on future historians and travelers? 
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>A graduate of Harvard University, Laurence Bergreen is the author of many acclaimed biographies and histories, including the most recent Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe.  He has also written biographies of James Agee, Louis Armstrong, Truman Capote, and Irving Berlin, each considered definitive.
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>The free program takes place in the meetinghouse at First Parish in Cambridge (3 Church Street) in Harvard Square. Accessible by the Red Line.
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>Cambridge Forum
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>Cambridge, MA 02138
>Phone/fax:  617-495-2727
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Cambridge Forum
3 Church Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone/fax:  617-495-2727
email:  mailto:director at cambridgeforum.org
website:  http://www.cambridgeforum.org

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