The records of the Chinese Yuan dynasty do not mention a Marco Polo at all (and they should), and there aer some suspicious omissions from Polo's text - no tea, no foot-binding, no mention of Chinese printing, or even of the Great Wall. Did Polo even go to China?
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Introduction
1
(4)
Fraterna Compagnia
5
(10)
The Silk Road
15
(12)
In Xanadu
27
(12)
Khanbalikh
39
(12)
The Fork in the Road
51
(10)
Cathay
61
(9)
The Finest City in the World
70
(7)
In the Khan's Service
77
(12)
Cipangu
89
(9)
Over Strange Seas
98
(8)
A Passage to India
106
(11)
The Return Home
117
(10)
The Million Lies
127
(12)
Notes
139
(11)
Chronology
150
(10)
Further Reading
160
(4)
Picture Sources
164
(1)
Index
165
Jonathan Clements is the author of Confucius: A Biography and Pirate King: Coxinga and the Fall of the Ming Dynasty. He studied Chinese and Japanese at the University of Leeds. He contributed a biography of MAO to the Life× series.
