The only record of his 13th-century odyssey through the Far East is the hot air of his own Travels ... The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps, is out in November from the University of Chicago ...

It was not jewels, though, but Polo’s travelogue that proved to be the real treasure of his remarkable trek. Description of the World (a.k.a. The Travels of Marco Polo) tantalized the West with ...