In The Footsteps of Marco Polo

Exploring the Old World in Modern Times

Stanley Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2026
Unicorn Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-917458-65-8 (ISBN)

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In the summer of 1961, Stanley Johnson, accompanied by Tim Severin and Michael de Larrabeiti, set out from Oxford on two BSA 500cc Shooting Star motorcycles to follow Marco Polo’s route from Venice to Beijing. Although they came tantalizingly close to the Chinese frontier, they were forced to divert to India. With one motorcycle out of action, the three of them rode the remaining machine down the Grand Truck Road from Kabul to Calcutta. In 2023, Stanley set off again with his fourth son, Max, to finish the journey he had started sixty-two years earlier. With a brilliant camera-crew in tow, they followed Marco Polo's precise route across China, all the way to the Summer Palace of Kubla Khan in Xanadu and on to Beijing itself. This book tells the tale of an extraordinary dream come true.

Stanley Johnson, a former MEP, has worked for the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Commission in Brussels. He won the Newdigate prize for Poetry in 1962, the Greenpeace Prize and the RSPCA’s Richard Martin award in 1984, and the RSPB Medal and the WWF Leader of the Living Planet Award in 2015. Between 2019 and 2023, he served as the International Ambassador for the Conservative Environment Network (CEN). He is currently President of the Gorilla Organisation, Chairman of GEDU-Global Education Advisory Board, and Adviser to the World Coastal Forum. In 2017 he was the oldest contestant ever to appear in the reality television show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here. He is the author of twelve non-fiction works on environmental and demographic topics, two volumes of memoir and eleven novels, one of which – The Commissioner – was made into a film starring John Hurt.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.3.2026
Zusatzinfo	48 Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	1-917458-65-7 / 1917458657
ISBN-13	978-1-917458-65-8 / 9781917458658
Zustand	Neuware