In a life of ceaseless exploration, Marco Polo pushed out the borders of his narrow medieval world. Born in Venice in 1254, the young Polo first met his father at age 15, when the elder man had returned from a trading expedition to the East. Fired by his father’s tales of Kublai Khan’s court in China, the boy joined him on his next voyage in 1271, traveling through the Middle East, across the Gobi Desert, until they arrived in Khanbaliq, China, 4 years later. Author Nick McCarty is an award-winning scriptwriter for television and radio. Hardcover, 64 pages. (
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