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looking for marco polo
newbery honor winning author alan armstrongs latest book br eleven year old marks anthropologist father has disappeared in the gobi desert while tracing marco polos ancient route from venice to china . his mother decides they must go to venice to petition the agency that sent marks father to send out a search party . anxious about his father and upset about spending christmas away from home mark gets a bad asthma attack in the middle of the night . thats when doc hornaday an old friend of marks father makes a house call along with a massive black tibetan mastiff called boss . to distract mark from his wheezing and to pass the long venetian night the doc starts to spin for mark the tale of marco polo . doc describes marcos travels and the boy finds himself falling under the spell of the story that has transfixed the world for centuries . marcos journey bolsters marks courage and whets his appetite for risk and adventure and for exposure to life in all its immense and fascinating variety . p from the hardcover edition .
library binding random house books for young readers 2009 isbn13 9780375933219 isbn10 0375933212
abridged n isbn 13 9780375933219 number in series 1 number of pages 286 publisher random house books for young readers release date 1253577600000