Marco Polo

Marco Polo's Father and Uncle, merchants
of Venice,and travelled across Asia to the
court of Kublai Khan, the Mongol Emperor
who wanted them to come back again with
Christian monks to out-argue.his own priests!
They could only get two, who deserted them,
but in 1271 they left Venice with Marco,
Nicolo Polo's son.They walk across Persia,
the freezing Pamir plateau,Gobi Desert, the
Great Wall of China.They visited Malaya,India,
and Ceylon returned to Venice 24 years after
they had set out on theirgreat adventure.