The Travels Of Marco Polo: Introduction by F.W. Mote

The Travels Of Marco Polo

Introduction by F.W. Mote

From Venice to the lands of the Mongols-the fabulous voyage that changed the world.

Tales So Strange Wonders So Marvelous

Only an eyewitness could have told such wondrous descriptions of a world so mysterious and dangerous.

The fierce and bloody world of the Medieval Orient was also a world more cultured and munificent than the grandest courts of Europe.

The Asia of Genghis Khan had grown more peaceful under his grandson, Kublai.

The Emperor, once the terror of Europe, asked the Pope for missionaries to convert and educate his millions of unruly subjects - he received three merchants from Venice: Nicolo Polo, his brother Maffeo and his son, the twenty-one-year-old Marco.