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Among the millions of stories ever told, the tales of the legendary explorer Marco Polo are the most renowned. Listen as an old-time scribe tells his curious young neighbor about stories that are worth remembering. More anti historiography than travelogue, this work is a dialogue (in contrasting typefaces) between a fictitious scribe, an amalgamation of the many real writers who helped spread the legacy of Marco Polo, and a young listener. The child wants to hear about elephants, and so the scribe begins a tangent that encompasses brief retellings of Polo's tales as well as an exploration—and a bit of debunking—of the mythos surrounding him and his travels. 

这是一本适合6~10岁儿童阅读的绘本。本书虚构了一位抄写过马可·波罗手稿的抄写员，借他之口，向一位好奇的年轻访客讲述了马可·波罗人生中的一些精彩篇章。听完这些故事，这位小听众迫不及待地想把马可的奇妙经历印在自己脑海中，然后像那位抄写员一样，把马可·波罗的传奇故事传承下去。