Thereupon, good Renaissance man that he was, Pinto sat him down to write a book about it all ... the most renowned traveler in Asia after Marco Polo. He was the first European to describe ...

Some readers have even concluded that the book is a total fake. If Marco Polo went to China, British Sinologist Frances Wood asked some years ago in a book titled, appropriately enough ...

Olshin, a historian of cartography whose book, The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps, is out in November from the University of Chicago Press. “There’s nothing else that matches that ...

Denis Belliveau Polo described local animals now known even among Afghans as Marco Polo sheep "whose horns are [a] good six palms in length." Denis Belliveau Belliveau and O'Donnell found the ...