Travels of Marco Polo (Revised)

<p>Chronicling the thirteenth-century world from Venice his birthplace to the far reaches of Asia Marco Polo tells of the foreign peoples he meets as he travels by foot horse and boat through places including Persia Tibet India and finally China. There he serves in the court of Kublai Khan then the leader of the most advanced and powerful country in the world. Polo also ventures to Shangtu made immortal in Coleridge's poem "Xanadu."</p>