Who Was Marco Polo? begins with seventeen-year-old Marco setting out for the intriguing country of China. Though his China explorations began at seventeen… he was forty-one when he came back!
More than seven hundred years ago, Marco traveled from the medieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan. He saw new sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed.
But did he really experience the things he wrote about… or was it all made-up? Readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining, highly readable Who Was Marco Polo.
- Biography with black-and-white artwork by John O’Brien.
