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Copyright © 1997 Mark Frutkin

First Edition

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This book is published by Beach Holme Publishing, #226–2040 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6J 2G2. This is a Porcepic Book.

We acknowledge the generous assistance of The Canada Council and the BC Ministry of Small Business, Tourism and Culture.

Cover Art: The Lion of St. Mark by Vittore Carpaccio, 1516 (4 ft. 6 3/4 in. x 12 ft.), housed in the Ducal Palace, Venice. Map of Marco Polo's route from The Travels of Marco Polo, translated by John Frampton, edited by N.M. Penzer (Argonaut Press, London, 1929).

Editor: Joy Gugeler

Production and Design: Teresa Bubela, Joy Gugeler

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data:

Frutkin, Mark, 1948-

The lion of Venice

(A Porcepic Book)

ISBN 0-88878-378-7

1. Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?--Fiction. I. Title.

II. Series.

PS8561.R84L56 1997 C813'.54 C97-900648-1

PR9199.3.F776L56 1997