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In 1271 a young Italian merchant known as Marco Polo embarked on a groundbreaking expedition from Venice, through the center East and Central Asia to China. His amazing studies of his experience introduced medieval European countries to an exotic new world of emperors and concubines, amazing places, huge armies, unusual spices and cuisine, and imperial riches. Marco Polo also discovered the wonders of Xanadu, the summertime capital of Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. Almost 750 years later, acclaimed writer John Man traveled in Marco Polo's footsteps to Xanadu and then on to Beijing and through modern China searching for the history behind the story. In this enthralling chronicle, Man pulls on his own journey, new archaeological findings, and profound archival review to coloring a brilliant picture of Marco Polo and the fantastic judge of Kublai Khan.
