The journey will cover 15,000 miles (24,000 km) and last 24 years. You’ll see things you could not have imagined and be catapulted into the upper echelons of a powerful empire. And, eventually, you’ll become one of the most famous travelers in Western history.
What could be the outline for a blockbuster movie is nothing less than the biography of Marco Polo.
Born in Venice in 1254, Polo traveled the Silk Road, a medieval trade route connecting Europe to Asia, between 1271-95, spending 17 of those years in China as a prominent figure in the flourishing Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan.
After returning to Italy, Polo collaborated with the writer Rustichello da Pisa to chronicle his journey. The resulting book, “Il Milione” (The Million), known in English as “The Travels of Marco…