Polo Fiction

Ein heldenhafter Abenteurer? Ein geistreicher Berater der Mächtigen? Oder doch nur ein einfacher Betrüger? Die einzige Romanbiografie über eine der schillernsten Figuren des Mittelalters: Marco Polo. Ist dieser Mann ein Held, ein Genie oder nur ein Lügner? Diese Fragen gehen dem Geschichtenerzähler Rustichello durch den Kopf, als er der Erzählung seines Mitgefangenen Marco Polo lauscht. Hat dieser Marco es wirklich bis an den Hof des Kublai Khan geschafft?

Summer has arrived along with a plethora of social events that keep Cleo and her cousins busy. Between balls, dinners, concerts and picnics, they attend the final match between two proud polo clubs. When the winning team’s captain is found murdered in the stables, everyone assumes the opposing team’s captain killed him. After all, he was found holding the murder weapon, and everyone knows they hated each other.

Año 2112. Los Polos ya no existen y la Tierra ya no es el lugar que fue siglos atrás. La humanidad intenta enfrentarse a las adversidades de este nuevo mundo en el que todo vale con tal de sobrevivir. Escondida entre los Polos se descubre una caverna misteriosa jamás antes explorada que puede suponer la salvación de la humanidad. Desgraciadamente, todos los que han osado adentrarse han hallado la muerte a las pocas horas.

As the assistant to one of fashion's most powerful designers, Ashley has always stayed out of frame — until her secret romance with the face of his latest menswear line, tennis star Chris Courtney, is exposed in a single, perfectly-timed paparazzi shot. With nowhere to turn, she escapes to the countryside to stay with family, hoping to disappear. As Ashley's thrust into a world of high-stakes games and elite scandal, she finds herself at the centre of a yet another storm, one where passion and power collide, and her heart might just be the biggest risk of all.

When a shadowy Russian mole threatens to undermine the free world's defenses by infiltrating President Eisenhower's National Security Counsel, CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes is called in to unmask the imposter. Oakes turns the tables on the Communists by piloting a U-2 spy plane on a Gary Powers-style one-way mission behind the Iron Curtain. Sentenced to death and trapped in the depths of the Lubyanka prison, Oakes may have turned his last trick. Or has he?

Dive into Marco Polo, a heart-pounding psychological thriller set in 1940s Pittsburgh, where shadows whisper secrets and heroes skirmish with personal demons. Follow Captain Wendell Lee, a dashing African American war hero turned attorney, as he battles alcoholism and the damage caused to his family and his life while racing against time to rescue his kidnapped daughter. With hard-drinking private investigator Declan “Dekker” O’Shea by his side, they face the chilling underbelly of a city entangled in racism, addiction, pedophilia, suicide, murder, and shocking betrayals.

Ten years in the service of Kublai Kahn...Marco, Niccolo, and Maffeo Polo have seen magic and miracles, and accumulated riches beyond their dreaming. But now all they want is to return to their beloved Venice. Alas - as the only Westerners in the glittering Mongol court, they are high favourites with the Khan of Khans. And before he will allow them to leave, they must undertake one strange, final quest.

When Cole moves in with his dad, Harp, he thinks life will be sweet - just him and his horse, Boo, hanging out with Philadelphia’s urban cowboys. But when Harp says he has to get a job, Cole winds up as a stable hand for the polo team at George Washington Military Academy, where the players are rich, white, and stuck-up - all except Ruthie, the team’s first and only girl, who’s determined to show the others she can beat them at their own game. As Cole and Ruthie become friends - and maybe more - he starts imagining his future, maybe even at the academy.

La leyenda de los viajes de Marco Polo cobra vida en este texto de una forma nunca vista hasta entonces. De la mano de una de las escritoras de viajes más reputadas de la actualidad, Patricia Almarcegui, el hecho histórico de su partida desde Venecia hasta las profundidades de la China imperial se convierte en una trepidante narración en la que nosotros, afortunados viajeros, acompañamos a Marco Polo codo con codo en su gesta.

Young Marco Polo meets Kubla Khan, the King of Siam, and Saint Paul, and he falls in love with Khan's beautiful daughter, Golden Bells. After her magicians save him from death in the desert, he stays and marries her. Following her death, Polo returns to Venice as an old man.

Narrada a través de la mirada de un perro, esta novela aborda con ternura e inteligencia la soledad y otros desafíos de la vida de las personas mayores, así como de la importancia del humor y la amistad. A veces, la historia de un perro puede ser la más humana de todas. Tassen siempre ha...

Finding true love is the ultimate fantasy. What happens, when you fall in love with a psycho? Jessie gets wrapped up in the plans of a psychotic serial killer. Will she survive, or will Roger add her to his list of kills?

Nos hallamos en el siglo XX y ante un mundo que ya no tiene secretos, en el que no quedan tierras por descubrir ni mares por surcar. Países cuyos nombres, en la anterior generación, eran apenas conocidos, se encuentran hoy sojuzgados por Europa, sirviendo a sus necesidades. Los barcos se remontan, actualmente, hasta las fuentes del Nilo, que durante infinidad de tiempo se buscaron en vano. Las cataratas Victoria, que un europeo contempló por primera vez hace medio siglo; producen ahora energía eléctrica.

Marco Polo is a small felt mouse who used to be a Christmas ornament on Anne the librarian’s tree. But now he’s one of the Book Buddies, toys that can be checked out just like books. Marco Polo may be small, but he’s also a brave explorer looking for adventure - if only someone would check him out of the library. Seth is a boy who visits the library with his dad and younger brother. He wishes he could be a little more brave, especially when he goes on his first sleepover. But maybe a small explorer like Marco Polo is just the kind of friend he needs.

This is a story from the Great Explorers collection.