Invisible cities

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  • Author: Calvino, Italo
    Contributor:

    Tantor Media

    ,

    Lee, John

    Summary:

    In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo-Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Historical fiction
    Original Publisher: Old Saybrook, Conn , [Prince Frederick, Md.] , Tantor Media , [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781452694481

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DC Contributor

Tantor Media

Lee, John

Abstract

In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo-Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.

Genre
Biographical fiction
Historical fiction
Publisher (Source)

Old Saybrook, Conn

[Prince Frederick, Md.]

Tantor Media

[Distributed by] OneClick Digital

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