Learn more about Marco Polo and his travels at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Read more about Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell’s expedition in Smithsonian Magazine.

Read Volume 1 of The Travels of Marco Polo at Project Gutenberg. (English)

Read Volume 2 of The Travels of Marco Polo at Project Gutenberg. (English)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Beliliveau, Denis and Francis O’Donnell. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2008.

Larner, John. Marco Polo and the Discovery of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.

Wood, Frances. Did Marco Polo Got to China? Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996.

Polo, Marco. The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Trans. and ed. Henry Yule. London: John Murray, 1871.

SUGGESTED READING

Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

Dalrymple, William. In Xanadu: A Quest. New York: Vintage, 1990.

Hedin, Sven. Across the Gobi Desert. Trans.H.J. Cant. New York: Dutton, 1932.

Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia. New York: Kodansha International, 1992.

Humble, Richard. Marco Polo. New York: Putnam, 1975.

Moule, A.C. Quinsai, with other Notes on Marco Polo. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1957.

Olschki, Leonardo. Marco Polo’s Asia; and introduction to his “Description of the World” Called “Il Milione.” Trans. John A. Scott, and rev. by the author. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.

Pelliot, Paul. Notes on Marco Polo. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, Librarie Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1959-63.

Polo, Marco. The Description of the World / The Travels of Marco Polo. Trans. and annotated by A.C. Moule and Paul Pelliot. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 1938 [Reprint: New York: AMS Press, 1976].

Polo, Marco. The Travels of Marco Polo. Trans. Ronald Latham. Middlesex, England: Penguin Classics, 1958.

Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Rutstein, Hary and Joanne Kroll. In the Foosteps of Marco Polo: A Twentieth Century Odyssey. New York: Viking, 1980.

Severin, Tim. Tracking Marco Polo. 1st American edition. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1986.

Shor, Jean Bowie. After You, Marco Polo. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.

Spence, Jonathan D. The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds. New York: Norton, 1998.

Stein, Aurel, Sir. Innermost Asia: Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia, Kan-se and Easter Iran Carried Out and Described under the Orders of H.M. Indian Government. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1928.

Yamashita, Micheal S. Marco Polo: A Photographer’s Journey. Vercelli, Italy: White Star, 2004.