Goods moved between China and Europe along this route. Marco Polo came from a family ... Information from the Travels was useful in improving maps of East Asia, which fed trade relations.

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 ...

To illustrate the route taken by Marco Polo’s caravan and to mark the passage of time, a map was shown on screen ... that he dictated the story of his travels to a fellow prisoner.