Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and fortyone when hecame back More than seven hundred years ago Marco Polo traveled from themedieval ci... » 

Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and fortyone when hecame back More than seven hundred years ago Marco Polo traveled from themedieval city of Venice to the fabled kingdom of the great Kublai Khan seeingnew sights and riches that no Westerner had ever before witnessed. But didMarco Polo experience the things he wrote about . . . or was it all madeup?Young readers are presented with the facts in this entertaining highlyreadable Who Was . . . ? biography with blackandwhite artwork by John OBrien. «