If you liked the history plot in Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen , here is a list of 14 books like this:
1. Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
By: Tom Holland
4.16
Format: 418 pages, Hardcover
In the fifth century BC, a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it reg… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
2. Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
By: Andrew Graham-Dixon
4.14
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571–18 July 1610) lived probably the darkest and m… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
"Caravaggio’s art is made from darkness and light. His pictures present spotlit moments of extreme and often agonized human experience. A man is decapitated in his bedchamber, blood spurting from a de…"-Andrew Graham-Dixon, Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane
3. City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
By: Roger Crowley
3.92
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
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- history
- biography
- world history
- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
- china
5. Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
By: Samuel Eliot Morison
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and def… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- world history
6. The Last Days of the Incas
By: Kim MacQuarrie
4.35
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of t… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- history
- world history
7. The Travels
By: Ronald E. Latham , Marco Polo , Ronald Latham
3.15
Format: None pages,
So much has been written on the subject of the celebrated Venetian traveller of the middle ages Mar… read more
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- travel
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
8. Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: ... and Other Small Events That Changed History
By: Phil Mason
3.86
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying, historical what-ifs, Napoleon's Hemorrhoi… read more
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9. Farther Than Any Man: The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
By: Martin Dugard
3.50
Format: 519 pages, Paperback
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10. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
By: Jack Weatherford
3.22
Format: 224 pages,
Ratu-ratu Mongol abad ketiga belas memerintah kekaisaran terbesar yang pernah diketahui dunia. Namu… read more
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11. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
By: Andrés Reséndez
3.68
Format: None pages,
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12. Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
By: Simon Winchester
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetim… read more
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13. Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
By: Buddy Levy
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy r… read more
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14. Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
By: Roger Crowley
3.93
Format: 265 pages,
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, d… read more
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15. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
16. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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- history
- biography
- world history
- travel
- nonfiction
17. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
By: Jack Weatherford
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback… read more
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- history
- biography
- world history
- asia
- nonfiction
- china
"The first key to leadership is self-control."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words."-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
"The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to de…"-Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
18. Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
By: Bob Drury
4.06
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
The Instant New York Times BestellerNational Bestseller"[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Wall … read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
19. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
By: Ross King
3.98
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
20. The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
By: Paul Strathern
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth… read more
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- history
- biography
- nonfiction
21. Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.77
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, B… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- world history
"Far from being misanthropic loners with anger issues, most of these pirates had lives that were intimately intertwined with the communities from which they came, and to which they one day hoped to re…"-Eric Jay Dolin, Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
