The incredible story of Marco Polo's journey to the ends of the
earth has for the last seven hundred years been beset by doubts as
to its authenticity. Did this intrepid Venetian really trek across
Asia minor as a teenager, explore the length and breadth of China
as the ambassador of the ruthless dictator, Kublai Khan, and make
his escape from almost certain death at the hands of Kublai Khan's
successors? Robin Brown's book aims to get to the truth of Marco
Polo's claims. Covering his early life, his extraordinary
twenty-four-year Asian epic and his reception in Italy on his
return, Marco Polo places the intrepid Venetian in context,
historically and geographically. What emerges confirms the truth of
Polo's account. Polo, scholars now agree, opened vistas to the
medieval mind and stirred the interest in exploration that prompted
the age of the European ocean voyages. All who now enjoy the fruits
of Marco Polo's incredible journey through Asia - whether in the
form of spectacles, fireworks, pasta or any of the many products of
the Silk Road - will find in Robin Brown-Lowe's book a fascinating
portrait of a man who made history happen by bringing about the
meeting of East and West.
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