It was not jewels, though, but Polo’s travelogue that proved to be the real treasure of his remarkable trek. Description of the World (a.k.a. The Travels of Marco Polo) tantalized the West with ...

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For a guy who claimed to spend 17 years in China as a confidant of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo left a surprisingly ... houses “under the earth.” Travels made Polo an instant celebrity after ...

Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago, in the year 1324. In his travels, which started at the age of 17 and lasted over 20 years, he touched upon numerous cities ...