Explorer Marco Polo is assigned to accompany two priests on a mission to China, to try to convert the "pagan" Kublai Khan to Christianity. However, on a dangerous trek through the mountains ...

Imagine this: You're 17 and have never left home. Your father and uncle, merchants who have been absent your whole life, return home before they set off again on their next trip. Only this time ...

The 15th-century Book of Lismore features the only surviving Irish translation of Marco Polo's travels, among other historical texts Nora McGreevy Maps attributed to the 13th-century traveler ...