MARCO POLO From Venice to Xanadu By Laurence Bergreen Knopf. 415 pp. $28.95 Of all the travelogues ever published, none is more ambitious, controversial and erratic than Marco Polo's Description of the World. During the century after it was written, it appeared in some 120 manuscripts, none of th... -
The Traveler's Tale
MARCO POLO From Venice to Xanadu By Laurence Bergreen Knopf. 415 pp. $28.95 Of all the travelogues ever published, none is more ambitious, controversial and erratic than Marco Polo's Description of the World. During the century after it was written, it appeared in some 120 manuscripts, none of th...-
Reviewed by Colin Thubron