The City of Light: The Hidden by Jacob D'Ancona, Jacob

The City of Light: The Hidden

Jacob D'Ancona, Jacob with David Selbourne (Translator)

528 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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In 1270 a scholarly Jewish merchant called Jacob d'Ancona set out on a voyage from Italy. A year later, he arrived in China at the coastal metropolis of Zaitun, the "City of Light" (now known as Quanzhou), four years before Marco Polo arrived at X...

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