A book about the diversity of the world

Marco Polo's "Book of the Diversity of the World" is one of the greatest works of medieval travel literature and a vital source of European knowledge about the East. The Venetian merchant, who spent over twenty years wandering Asia and seventeen years at the court of the great Mongol Khan Kublai Khan, left behind a unique account of a world that was almost mythical to medieval Europe. This book contains descriptions of Persia and China, India and Tibet, Japan and Indonesia, accounts of the ...