Christopher Columbus, for one, embarked on his explorations driven at least in part by Marco Polo's book, a copy of which, with handwritten annotations, was among his belongings.

Why are Marco Polo's travels still remembered almost eight centuries later?

Selected extracts from Yule's “Book of Ser Marco Polo” are accompanied and woven together by a pleasantly written commentary, which seems to have been designed to interest the young people of ...

Eugenio Burgio, who has been studying Marco Polo's oeuvres at the Venetian University Ca' Foscari for about as long as Polo was away from home, gave me an example of this book's journey: a French ...

Moreover, Marco Polo did not write the book himself; it was narrated to his fellow inmate, an author, while he was imprisoned in Genoa. However, the basic framework of the story remains valid: Marco ...

Marco Polo was an Italian merchant and explorer who travelled through Asia along the ancient Silk Road in the 13th century, ending his journey in Dadu, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 ...

Eugenio Burgio, who has been studying Marco Polo's oeuvres at the Venetian University Ca' Foscari for about as long as Polo was away from home, gave me an example of this book's journey: a French ...

The exhibition Real and Imaginary Lands, China and Marco Polo: A Tale of Books opened at the Shanghai Library in East China, showcasing original Italian manuscripts and featuring over 100 ...

The role of Marco Polo's co-writer Rustichello in the book's production and his possible influence on its content also adds a layer of uncertainty viewed differently by historians.

The book selects parts of Marco Polo's travelogues in China and juxtaposes them with imaginative stories told by him in "Invisible Cities," a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino.