7 Individuals and Societies: Silk Road

Maps, illustrations, and easy-to-follow text introduce students to Marco Polo's travels through Asia more than seven hundred years ago.

Provides accounts of journeys undertaken by three men along the Silk Road, including seventh-century Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang, Mongolian warrior Genghis Khan, and thirteenth-century merchant Marco Polo.

Called to search for information about his father who disappeared many years ago, thirteen-year-old Chengli joins a caravan charged with giving safe passage to the Emperor's daughter as it navigates the constant dangers of the Silk Road in 630 A.D.