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    "The Travels of Marco Polo" presents a broad and wide-ranging panorama of Kubilai Khan's thirteenth century empire.

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  • Marco Polo is the Great Khan's emissary who is commissioned to travel throughout his empire. Marco Polo is sent to investigate and report back his findings about people, customs, culture, climate, flora and fauna, game, birds and habitation.

    The Great Khan's empire ranges from the Mideast and the Levant east through all the lands and kingdom to the China Sea and islands in it, north to Russia and the polar region and south to the Indian Ocean islands. Marco Polo is believed to travel farther and more widely than anyone else in the world of his day.

    Marco Polo is born into a family of Venetian merchants.

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    He spends twenty years in the service of travel through the Great Khan's empire. He starts his first mission as a young lad of seventeen after arriving at the court with his father Niccolo and uncle Maffeo. The Great Kha