Marco Polo
Introduction
Marco Polo was an Italian merchant traveler who immortalized his travel stories to Central Asia and China by giving an account of his journey in his famous book 'Description of the World' aka Livres des merveilles du monde in French. There are few European travelers who voyaged to China years before Marco Polo but the journey undertaken by Polo was the most remarkable. He spent 24 years of his life travelling in Asia and China, having spent 17 of those years in China alone. Marko Polo served as an inspiration to many subsequent European explorers. Marco Polo's ...