Book
Old Glory
Old Glory is a travel book by Jonathan Raban. It is the winner of The Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
The Book of the City of Ladies
Perhaps Christine de Pizan’s most famous literary work, and it is her second work of lengthy prose
The Bogey Man
Type of mythic creature used by adults to frighten children into good behavior
The Travels of Marco Polo
13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo’s travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan.The book was written by romance writer Rustichello da Pisa, who worked from accounts which he had heard from Marco Polo when they were imprisoned together in Genoa