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 ...

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 ...

The misconception seems to come from a passage in his famous book, "The Travels of Marco Polo," in which he describes a pasta tree. Food historians now believe this reference proves that pasta was ...

To illustrate the route taken by Marco Polo’s caravan and to mark the passage of time, a map was shown on screen accompanied by a voice-over by Mark Eden as Polo, describing the journey.