Medieval audiences couldn’t get enough of Polo’s fascinating accounts of faraway lands, turning his book into a runaway success. Marco Polo carries his popular book Il Milione, known in English as the ...

In "Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu," Laurence Bergreen tackles the shaky data surrounding the legendary world traveler who ostensibly brought pasta to Italy. Polo wrote a manuscript about his years ...

Part of the Historical Notebooks series, this evocative guide to Marco Polo's journeys pairs new text with excerpts from The Travels of Marco Polo. Antique map reproductions demonstrate the limited ...