Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild idea - retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back - and spent two incredible years of their ...

This work would become known as The Travels of Marco Polo but sadly made no mention of an encounter with a mysterious Doctor in a flying blue caravan. Marco Polo is unfortunately the first of ...

Denis Belliveau Polo described local animals now known even among Afghans as Marco Polo sheep "whose ... with whom Belliveau and O'Donnell stayed) still work the land, despite the danger of ...

For a guy who claimed to spend 17 years in China as a confidant of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo left a surprisingly skimpy paper trail. No Asian sources mention the footloose Italian. The only record ...

Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago, in the year 1324. In his travels, which started at the age of 17 and lasted over 20 years, he touched upon numerous cities ...

The Biennale is dominating Venice this month, but the rest of the city still has plenty to offer, from a deep dive into the travels of Marco Polo to a celebration of Jean Cocteau’s genius.