Imagine this: You're 17 and have never left home. Your father and uncle ... movie is nothing less than the biography of Marco Polo. Born in Venice in 1254, Polo traveled the Silk Road, a medieval ...
The world of Marco Polo, as revealed in a new book by Sharon Kinoshita, presents a Eurasia and Africa in which peoples, things, and ideas flowed on land and sea, for trade and as plunder ...