Venetian traveller. Marco Polo is 19 years old when his/her father, Niccolo, and his/her uncle Matteo, on the merchants who went twice to the court of the Large Khan, decide to take it along with them.    

The caravan of the Sports shirt leaves Saint-Jean-to Acre and moves towards Laïas, with the doors of Arménie, made inaccessible meanwhile by the presence of an army sarrasine. The Venetian ones then carry on their road by another route, cross Mosul, Baghdad, Kachan and Ormuz while being delivered to the trade of the fabrics, the precious stones and the pearls. They pass then by Nichapour, go up towards the east, cross Badachkan, country of the rubies, the high plateaus of Pamir (Afghanistan), and end, after the crossing of the Gobi Desert, up reaching China.

The Mongolian emperor of China, Koubilaï Khan, accommodates them with ostentation and benevolence. Allured by the intelligence of Marco, it takes it with its service like advising and entrusts to him some missions in the south of China.  

While Marco Polo sees her crowned embassies of success, his/her father and his uncle pile up force richnesses. After twelve years in China, the Venetian ones, fearing disgrace if the khan has suddenly died, ask for the authorization to him of return to Venice. Koubilaï, reticent, accepts finally and benefits from an embassy Persian to separate from his estimated Vénitiens by uniting them with the caravan.  

The terrestrial voyage is rather short, and Marco Polo embarks with his in Tchouan-Tchéou, current Canton. The ships travel by Ceylon, the Western coast of India, the Persian Gulf, and unload in Ormuz. The three merchants take again the road then and arrive finally at Venice, 24 years after their departure.  

The accounts of Marco Polo about the richness of Cathay (China) are accommodated with skepticism by the Venetian ones, which by derision call it Milione (the man to the million). A war bursts then between Venice and Genoa, during which Marco Polo is made prisoner. It is in prison in Genoa that it meets Rustichello da Pisa (Rusticien of Pisa), in which it tells its voyage.

Once released, this one consigns its remarks in writing and is made the first editor of the Venetian one. The success of the book, baptized Book of the wonders of the world, is considerable. Initially written into French, it is translated into several languages and, abundantly recopied soon, is diffused in all Europe. Lu by much like a work of imagination, it influenced two centuries later the large discoverers, like Colomb and Vasco de Gama.