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In the Footsteps of Marco Polo (2009) is a PBS documentary about two friends (Denis Belliveau and Francis O'Donnell) who conceived of the ultimate road trip to retrace Marco Polo's journey from Venice to China via land and sea. [168] In Search of Marco Polo (2013), a Croatian documentary miniseries written and directed by Miro Branković.
Around the same time, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China. His tales, documented in The Travels of Marco Polo, opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East. He was not the first to bring back stories, but he was one of the most widely read.
The rest of the journey is outlined with descriptions of most of the ancient sites along the Silk Route, through which Marco Polo was supposed to have passed. The author compares the old time splendour of the cities on the Silk Route to their present physical and political conditions, and thereby illustrates the changes.
Larner, John (1999), Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World, New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-07971-0. Olschki, Leonardo (1960), Marco Polo's Asia: An Introduction to His "Description of the World" Called "Il Milione", translated by John A. Scott, Berkeley: University of California Press, OCLC 397577.
It is usually said that the Polos used the Northern Silk Road although the possibility of a southern route has been advanced. [7] The Polos spent the next 17 years in China. According to The Travels of Marco Polo (Il Milione), Kublai Khan took a liking to Marco, who was an engaging storyteller. He was sent on many diplomatic missions throughout ...
By the time Marco Polo visited Khotan, which was between 1271 and 1275, ... The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith. London. The British Library 2004.
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...
As a result, they picked up the trail traveled by Marco Polo's father, Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo, to Bukhara, hoping to visit Iran on the way back. The Polo brothers had opened up the land route to China, known as the Silk Road years before Polo. In Uzbekistan the two were required to have a visa for every city that they visited.